Dave Pelz’s Damage Control: How to Save Up to 5 Shots Per Round Using All-New, Scientifically Proven Techniques for Playing Out of Trouble Lies
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A paradigm-smashing instruction book on recovering from distress and avoiding “disaster shots”-the three or four errant shots in each round that lead to blow up holes and ruin golfers’ scores
Over his three decades of effective with pro and amateur golfers, Dave Pelz noticed some certain differences between the two, particularly in how pros and amateurs handle distress shots. Seeking quantitative evidence for his hunch, he used his analytical tools to look at thousands of scorecards from a wide range of amateur players. The data showed that the majority of golfers play at or not more than their handicap most of the time but are done in by a few “disaster holes”-double bogeys or worse-each round that ruin their score.
In Hurt Control, Dave Pelz teaches all the techniques necessary to recover from distress and avoid disasters. He clarifies the golf fact that you will hit errant shots-into deep rough, into sand, into shallow water, or near obstacles that inhibit your swing. The key is being able to recover from these shots and not make a terrible situation worse by arresting the ball into deeper distress.
The book is filled with full-color photos and drills on how to make all the shots you might encounter on a golf course using five skills specifically designed to minimize the chances of building your life worse. Revealing methods for shot-building never before seen in an instructional book, Hurt Control is a groundbreaking new look at the game from a master instructor.
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I got this book for my spouse. He is getting lots of information out of he and enjoys it very much.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Very excellent book. Attacks problem of 1-2 terrible holes that even excellent golfers have on many rounds. Once again, Pelz approach consists of close observations of pros and amateurs plus lab data. Emphasis is on understanding first, then knowing what to do differently then drills to help your head & body learn the right techniques. Better pictures than earlier books. To some extent repetitive, but that’s Pelz’s style: tell them, clarify/prove it to them, then teach them.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
When I first read the book, new information that you would never hear from your local pro was flowing into my head.
The course management thoughts, backed by statistics, was worth the fee of the book. The practice thoughts for a backyard session for hurt conrol shots will be tested this spring. The best thing that came across the page to me was Dave explaining that the clubface direction is where the ball starts off. I was permanently told the path of the swing ongoing the ball out in a direction and the clubface direction would slice the ball if open, hook the ball if clogged and of course stay straight if the face was straighht. Dave teaches the opposite. I went to the range and aimed 30 yrd right with a hook swing path from way inside and the ball ongoing not with the path but where the clubface aimed with a nice 30 yd draw/hook. Total Enlightenment!!! Thanks Dave!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Being a fantastic fan of David Peltz and having read the Fleeting Game Bible many times, and it is really on my bed stand dare I say in no offense to the golf god, like a bible. I preordered Hurt Control which I got for the holidays and have read through it with fantastic delight while the weather this winter has made golf a near memory. I am permanently amazed at the number of golfers I play with that know golf is a game of strategy but do not ever seem to really use strategy or reflect through their next play. To read this book and know it you have to be open to the thought that much of the game involves distress shots. This is why the golf courses are apt 7500 yards with endless bunkers, buck grass you could hunt duck in, trickery of the eye, super quick greens and really rough rough.
I should mention that I am a passing middle age high handicapper beginner of 3 years playing from the red tees. (Please don’t tune me out yet just because I am a female golfer!) I am also an engineer and so is Peltz. His many years at NASA taught him how to problem solve and the golf courses today are an engineer’s dream of problem solving. In this book he starts with some basic statistics about how regularly from the Tee you will end up in distress, to some extent based on handicap and not being a professional that practices 40 hours a week. Once you embrace this simple truth then you are prepared to evaluate probably more than half of your lies as hard situations. After he has you convinced to accept this as part of the game he uses the rest of the book to demonstrate how you extricate yourself from these common problem areas.
What I establish most appealing was the thought of keeping the spine angle as aligned with the terrain as possible to allow for enough room to open your hips and get a honestly excellent shot, even if you are on your knees. It is discussed in most books briefly in the section on uphill/downhill lies, ball above/not more than feet. His review has finally brought this into focus for me and I find the few times the weather has allowed me to play and I am in these situations I reflect about this first thing and it really makes a difference.
It is the type of book you read through once then return to each section, usually after you have encountered the situation on the course and you need a refresher about why he says to do what will best give you the chance to escape distress. As a beginner I would have to say that I will follow all of his advice and keep referring to this book probably after every round I play. But, I want to also say that as a beginner I set aside the right to call an unplayable lie, such as a buried ball in the sand since I will most likely take 5 strokes to get free and injure myself in the process!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Only read the first 20 pages and it already saved me AT LEAST TWO strokes during my golf round today.
When faced with a hard lie, blocked by a row of trees, with the ball sitting on a pile of mulch, no matter what shot option I selected, my next shot wasn’t going to reach the green. My first choice would have been to hit a huge ancient looping hook with a 7-iron.
After reading only the first 20 pages, the probability of being able to hook a 7-iron off a pile of mulch to get out of a distress situation with OB to the right looked a lot more like a marginal success shot than before I read the first 20 pages.
I questioned myself, “can you hit a hook with a 7-iron”? The answer was – YEP nearly every time I try. The next question was, “have you EVER practiced arresting a hook with a 7-iron off a pile of mulch”? The answer to that one was – NOPE. The next question was, “how terrible is the penalty if you miss this shot” The answer was – INTO THE FIRE! So as a replacement for of trying to hook a 7-iron off a pile of mulch, I hit it less than 20 feet forwards to open up a less challenging flight path to the green.
Next shot was onto the green, and I still had a realistic possibility of saving a par. Walking off the green with a bogey and thinking, had I been successful with hooking a 7-iron around a row of trees and off a pile of mulch, I still would have likely had a bogey. But if I missed that 7-iron off the mulch it would have been OB and a 7 or an 8.
Three holes later, with my ball nestled down into the rough with 105 yards to the flagstick. My first result would have been to pull out the 105 yard club (SW) and take a rip at it. But after reading the first 20 pages, I questioned myself; “what’s the statistical shot pattern going to look like on being able to pull off arresting this 105 yards out of 4″ rough”? Not very likely, so I added one full club to a 120 yard lock, choked down two inches on the shaft, took a shorter swing at the same tempo, and stuck it 10 feet past the stick. I was now looking at a realistic birdie opportunity simply by mentally assessing my likely shot-pattern from 105 yards out of 4″ rough? It’s possible I might have been able to pull it off, but I judge I may have increased the statistical likelihood of the outcome simply by changing clubs.
I was explaining the results with my playing partner today, and mentioning I was reading the new Pelz book “Hurt Control”. He’s an 8 handicap I’m an 11 handicap. No handicap strokes were involved and I beat him 3-up in match play and by 4 shots today. He was laughing and says, “if you can save 3 shots by only reading the first 20 pages what’s going to take place when you end the book”?
I’m going to have to end reading the book to answer that question.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5