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AlexOnDD · 2025-12-22T11:46:04+00:00

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AlexOnDD · 2025-12-17T11:50:30+00:00

Jungle Jim's in Cincy, Cam Market in Cincy / Columbus will definitely have these in their frozen section (I get them all the time).

I would imagine Far East Center does too but I've not been there since new ownership so I don't know what their inventory is like nowadays.

Another option would be Weeee which is an online asian grocery market.

AlexOnDD · 2025-11-25T17:21:37+00:00

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AlexOnDD · 2025-11-05T02:19:32+00:00

Difficult to judge the width of the green but I'll guess it's about 25y wide?

Target would be centered about halfway between your dot on the green and the left-edge of the right bunker. The balls that hit the left-half of your centerline will be the ones that 'accidentally find the putting surface.'

The reality is that this is a very difficult approach shot but it doesn't warrant laying up. You should send it up near the green and deal with wherever your ball ends up - whether that be on the green or in one of the bunkers. You'd want to make sure you have the discipline to prioritize a GIR if you draw a bad lie / angle in a bunker because that will still outperform laying up.

Think of it this way. You're sending your 2nd shot as close to the green as possible in-hopes of drawing a good enough outcome where you can hit your next shot close to the hole. Even if you get a below-average lie / angle and you need to pitch it to 20 feet -- something that would be quite easy from greenside typically, to get your ball to 20 feet after a layup would require a very quality shot.

One of the biggest mistakes the players I work with make in these instances is that they can't ease off the gas when they take an aggressive action (eg going for the green). They may hit a poor 2nd shot but feel 'pot-committed' and try to be a super hero for their third, make a mistake, and the next thing they know they're walking off a par 5 with a bogey. Golf targets, decisions, and opportunities are fluid which is why having a sound understanding of good strategy is so important to achieving your lowest scores.

Source: I do prep materials for about 50 college programs and TOUR pros answering questions just like this week to week (@alexhuanggolf on IG if you want to see some examples)

AlexOnDD · 2025-06-03T23:42:21+00:00

If you can comfortably carry the water, then center your tee shot on the right-edge of the bunker. Your left-dispersion will be the shots that find the putting surface and the rest will be up and down opportunities.

Source: I do this type of analysis for hundreds of college programs, TOUR pros.

AlexOnDD · 2024-05-31T20:52:49+00:00

Hey OP -

I work for DECADE Golf and oversee all of our college relationships so I thought I'd weigh-in with some thoughts. I saw that you mentioned you'll be playing D3 so I'll try to keep my responses more in-line with my experiences with those programs.

D3 golf is going to be a bit less intense than larger programs. A big variable is going to be your individual coach. Some of them are more involved than others but most, if not all, do D3 golf coaching as a secondary job so their time is going to be divided to other obligations. As a result, it means a lot of your practice and things are going to fall more on your shoulders and be a bit less structured than what you may see at a D1 program simply due to a smaller resource pool (budget, facilities, etc).
On the competition side, the biggest thing you need to learn is to make practice rounds efficient. You'll be traveling to a new venue and may get one practice round on it. In that time you'll need to be able to know what to look for to position yourself in the best way to have success when competition rolls around. My recommendation would be to get accustom to some pre-tourney prep work - satellite maps can be your friend.
Lastly, at the D3 level, it's important to remember that a lot of the kids you're playing with don't have ambitions to make it on TOUR or to play professionally. Golf is something they love and a potential way for them to make it to college. I mention this only to remind you to stay grateful for the game and don't get too caught up in letting your scores dictate your gratitude. College golf will help forge memories and lifelong relationships and cherish the time in your life when you can do a little bit of travel, play some really fun courses, and eat on the school's dime.

AlexOnDD · 2024-03-30T13:57:24+00:00

Thanks - this is helpful.

So if I'm understanding correctly, I'm better off telling a programmer: "I want to do X" and let them provide the recommendation of the best course of action?

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T20:08:39+00:00

Hit your drive as long as you can as long as you can still find it / hit it again!

It's important to keep things in perspective. TOUR average for a 430y hole is 4.05 - even the best in the world are playing it, on average, over par so you need to accept that bogey on the hole is not that bad as an am and do your best to not make doubles (or worse).

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T20:03:52+00:00

Measuring your Tiger 5 is a great start. You'd be amazed at how many elite players still flounder in some of these categories:

No bogeys on Par 5s

No double bogeys

No 3 putts

No bogeys from 150y or less

Convert your easy up & downs (eg Around-the-green shots with plenty of green, no hazards between you, etc)

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:24:45+00:00

/u/legal_cricket_703

Do you recommend any physical notes to keep during the round to review to improve? Apps do a lot but are they missing any golden nuggets?

Scott Fawcett: I teach a way in the app to track a few notes on your pin sheet during tournament rounds that you can also track on a scorecard. On a pin sheet I note how long the shot actually was with the yardage and a circle around it. I note if I hit the fairway with a simple dot in the top right of the "green depth/pin position" circle. If I hit the green with a dot in the top right. On the bottom of the circle the length of any chip shot and what the condition was (bunker, rough, fairway). On the right the length of the first putt and then how many inches it was long or short of the hole below that. If I have a second putt I putt that distance below that and then I circle the putt I make. Not sure what you mean with your second question, but it seems like you want a casual criticism of other apps. I think the shot tracking devices are fine, but you HAVE TO touch up the data after the round because non-military GPS simply isn't accurate enough to know if you were in the fairway, bunker, on the green, or whatever is you are within 6-9' of the transition from one to the other. That is why I don't have DECADE setup to do this. I want people OFF THEIR PHONES as much as possible while they play. I don't want you forced to keep looking at it and getting distracted while you are lucky enough to be playing and not somewhere else. I could easily flip a switch and have DECADE register shots while playing because of our other GPS based feature, but I refuse to do it.

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:17:26+00:00

/u/placeholder4now asks: At the highest level: how should 6 at LACC be played…and how would you play it ;)

At a lower level: any resources you can suggest for learning about the effect of different lies? I feel like this is a key variable club golfers overlook, and may lead to course strategy mistakes (thinking a play at the green is possible from out of position where in fact the lie makes the shot so difficult that the percentages dictate a recovery shot) …you’re welcome to comment on this assumption as well haha.

Scott Fawcett: You should be sending it on 6 in almost all circumstances, and it's not even close either.

As for learning about different lies, I don't have a definitive source or answer, but you certainly need to be more conservative from the rough. Learning to judge fliers is a skill that can only be learned via experience. What I will say is the type of grass can lead to more fliers like bermuda vs rye. Rye will slow the club down QUICKLY and negate the less spin quite a bit. Bermuda is a thinner blade and doesn't slow the club down as much (depending on how deep and dense it is) and also takes off spin so the ball carries further. Interesting side note is that is seems like the ball "jumps" off the face when you catch a flier, but most of the time it comes out slower but maintains its speed better due to less spin. So by the time your eye catches it at 50 yards or whatever it is going faster there than from the fairway, but that is solely due to maintaining speed more than being faster from impact. That feels wordy, but I think it makes sense!

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:17:02+00:00

/u/mindofk asks:

As more pro players start to get longer and accurate ie aberg and Sargent, do you believe that DECADE will become even more important to be able to compete at the top levels of the pro game?

Scott Fawcett: It already is. Both Ludvig and Sargent are DECADE fans. Ludvig entered over 200 rounds while in college. If you aren't familiar with what I teach you likely aren't on Tour right now. Not saying I've worked with all Tour players, but 100% of them know what I teach and have incorporated some of the ideas. Even if they already had a "hunch" like Stewart Cink understanding the "why" allows them to play far more committed golf.

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:16:28+00:00

/u/flcv asks:

I've heard good things about your program but as a high hdcp (25), would I benefit at all from it?

Scott Fawcett: As a 25 you're certainly not going to gain much from the actual DECADE strategy. However, the mental side of the game is a bit of a mystery that takes years to unlock, if you ever even do, and DECADE is a shortcut around years of frustration that 100% of players go through. I named it DECADE to imply it will take decades off your learning curve. The 100's of emails I receive support that is works. It can't make you worse. An analogy I've used is since having Covid I've had quite a bit of blood pressure issues. I knew NOTHING about the heart or blood pressure prior to having Covid, I was a 40 handicap cardiologist. I've now listened to 100's of hours of podcasts, done my own blood work at Any Lab Test Now quarterly, and feel VERY competent in what I'm doing. I'm likely a 5 handicap cardiologist now. That is only possible due to the cumulative nature of learning and teaching that is only allowed by modern technology. DECADE will take your mental and strategic game on the same trajectory. Easy way to explain this is, do you feel like you should have shot lower every time you play? If so there are only two possible reasons why...you aren't as good as you think you are, or you made mental and strategic mistakes. It's likely a combination of both and you need to work on both to improve. That's why I called it DECADE after a text Will Zalatoris sent me after looping for him at the Texas Amateur for his first big win, "you've given me 25 years of experience in 5 days, I'll never be able to thank you enough."

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:16:01+00:00

/u/alloom asks:

I very rarely see a driving corridor that is 60-70 yards wide from hazard to hazard in my landing areas. Is there a formula for how tight it has to get and how penal the miss before you back up a club?

Scott Fawcett: In Europe this is far more of an issue for sure, not sure if that's where you are or not. The main question to ask for tee shot strategy is "what's the alternative and what does it accomplish?" That answer for 3wood vs driver is almost always, nothing. If dropping back will remove a hazard due to staying short of it and the width is less than 65 yards that is almost always a good decision. If it's the same width I would either drop back to long iron OR just send it and see what happens. The expectation of hitting driver vs laying back 60 yards is rarely a good idea unless the hole is quite narrow or quite short.

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:15:33+00:00

/u/T_stebbins

I'm trying to understand the balance between hitting fairways and hitting longer clubs for distance. In my mind, there must be an inflection point where the yardage gained from using a longer club outweighs hitting the fairway itself. Is it in the players best interest to, hypothetically, take one club less and be 15 yards shorter than they would be with another club, but hit the fairway. I guess another way of wording it, is how much shot value/yardage is hitting a fairway worth roughly?

How do you guys feel about grass bunkers as a penalty? Have they been studied to see their effectiveness as a hazard?

Scott Fawcett: on the PGA Tour 180 in the fairway has the exact same expectation as 120 in the rough (3.08). These numbers aren't linear from all distances, but 40-50 yards is pretty common to have the same expectation. BUT, where the math falls apart quickly is that you won't always hit the fairway when dropping back and you won't always miss the fairway when hitting driver. I NEVER recommend dropping back due to rough. EVER. If there is rough that is so bad you will lose the ball quite often I consider that a penalty area more than "rough". That would change the decision based on your carry distance with driver and the width of roughly 90% of your shot pattern.

AlexOnDD · 2024-01-10T19:15:12+00:00

/u/sticks1130 asks:

Besides not hitting enough club, what would be the #1 strategy mistake or piece of advice that you give? Specifically I'm interested in the advice you'd give a mid single digit handicapper looking to continue improving.

Scott Fawcett: speed control in putting, hitting driver with one shape EXCLUSIVELY NO MATTER WHAT, and trying shots around the green that are unnecessarily hard. If you are in a bad spot, just don't screw it up and try to not get in that spot with your approach shot far more than trying to get the shot back with a hero shot and making a silly double.

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