# Golf course management, priced

Course management is choosing targets by expected strokes instead of hope, and every decision on a hole can be priced: a driver against a 3 wood on a tight hole, the flag against the middle of the green, going for it against laying up. On the published table a tee shot out of bounds costs 2.05 strokes and a tucked pin costs an accurate striker 0.02, which is the arithmetic the decisions are made on.

## Key figures

- From 150 yards a tucked pin 10 yards from the middle costs a typical pattern 0.020 strokes against the middle of the green.
- A tee shot out of bounds on a 400 yard hole costs 2.05 strokes; from the rough at 200 yards advancing beats laying up to 100 by 0.38.

## Scope

- The tee shot and target figures come from the site’s dispersion models with stated spreads; the lay up and penalty figures are the published baseline.

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