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In this video Top 100 Teacher and Short Game Guru Dave Pelz helps you to understand where you should tee your golf ball for maximum success off the tee box. By choosing the left or right side based on your typical ball flight you can setup correctly.

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Let’s talk a little strategy here. You’re going to play 18 or 36 or maybe 72 holes in your tournament in your major. I want you to, in general, use smart strategy from the start of every hole. I don’t want you to just walk out to the center of the tee. Here we are at the 18th hole of the beautiful bunker Retone Resort Spa, I don’t want you to walk and hit this ball from the center of the tee unless you hit every drive dead straight. Most golfers don’t hit dead straight shots, I mean personally play right to left in most of my game, I just can’t help it. So if you hit the ball in a slight left to right fly pattern, most of your shots are curving left to right. I know nobody does everything the same every time but I want you to move to the right edge of the tee. I want you to learn to tee your ball up as close to the marker as you fell safe to do because the closer you get to it the better your angle is to hit this fairway. If you’re going to fade the ball from left to right, I want you to start at aiming like a dead bunker in a distance that’s just in the left rough from here. But if the ball starts in that direction a perfect shot will fade just in the left edge of the fairway. Your average shot will fade into the center of the fairway which is where we want it and your extreme fades maybe the same slice as you call it will go all the way across the fairway. Now we end up in the right raft but the highest percentage of your shot will be in the fairway if you start it down the left side of your fader. For me however, that doesn’t work. that’s a last place I want to put my ball on the ground, I tend to move ball right to the left so I come to the left side of the tee and I train myself to pretty close to this with out worrying about, this is now. I’m never going to hit this when I’m aiming at that ball so that doesn’t bother me but look at the angle that gives me. I can start my shot at the 2 trees down the right side of this fairway and I know it’s going to come left over bit so how much I’m not sure but its going to come left. It could come a lot left before I get into trouble on the left from this angle. I can optimize my percentages of getting my shot patterns to the most of my shots in that fairway by teeing up here on the right side of this tee. Then the fairway, it headed perfect, real draw, real too much draw but it’s in the left side of the fairway. Optimize your angle, optimize your result and we’re on our way to win this major.