What is worst a horrible putt or a bad drive?

[chris717]

I could drive really good but when i get myself on a par shot- 15fter, I sometimes miss causing me a stroke. Would it be better to have a ok drive and a killer putt and always par.

 

[BrotherDave]

I hate bad drives, just snowballs my score into a snowman, all the time. I don't mind a blown putt here and there.

 

[Dave Walters]

Just shoot the best you can trying to beat the course.

Dont worry about a bad drive just focus on a good upshot and putt to solidify the par.
If you have a good drive that leaves you with a 25-40 footer. Focus on that putt and make it count. and if you miss try not to go long by finding a putting style that lets the disc settle close to the pin.

 

[btucker11]

a bad putt followed by a terrible drive.....lol....and it happens more than I'd like to admit.

 

[Star Shark]

Bad drive is worse. Bad putt costs you a stroke, not counting roll aways. Bad drive could cause you a bunch o trouble.

 

[SomeChump]

Missed 15 footer is definitely worse. With a bad drive you still have a chance to save par. A missed putt is a stroke gone forever.

 

[Thuracine]

Missed 15 footer is definitely worse. With a bad drive you still have a chance to save par. A missed putt is a stroke gone forever.

This.
Nothing worse than bricking a 10-15 footer

 

[gcr_russell]

I hate the bad putts. That may be because Im much more familiar with them. My driving is typically at a pretty high level, while my putting absolutely does not follow suit.

 

[Eric O]

Bad putt is much worse!

 

[chris717]

yah really sux to miss an easy bird

that is my weakness horrible miscalculated putts, sometimes i overthink it too much. I miss so many easy bird attemps its so sad sometimes, I ve tried so many putting styles it gets me confused .:wall:

 

[softball29]

Putts. Putts. Putts. I missed so many ones I should have had the other day and that's what I remember -- not the bad drives. Putts haunt forever!

 

[ejvogie]

I'd usually much rather have a bad drive. A bad drive i can normally recover from and scramble to save par. If I miss a horrible putt, I'm usually coming back for bogey.

 

[DSmith]

Drive for show, putt for dough.

 

[Smigles]

To me, a BAD put is one that you dont even make the re-put. Missing puts happens to everybody.

 

[unknown2no1]

The worst for me is bad drive, good upshot, missed 15- 20ft putt. Holes like that make my round blow up, I can handle the occasional f-up (drive or putt) but when I throw a bad drive and then throw a great upshot to combat the bad drive and then blow the putt it gets in my head

 

[BradC]

To me a bad putt for sure.

I can get out of **** with a good next look pretty often. If not, a pitch out and a good look from there is much less demoralizing than donking one off the front of the basket of smacking the chastity belt.

Man, that gets in your head quick.

 

[Labelkills]

I could drive really good but when i get myself on a par shot- 15fter, I sometimes miss causing me a stroke. Would it be better to have a ok drive and a killer putt and always par.

if we are assuming that we always get par i dont care how it happens. and considering that "horrible" is a worse form of "bad". i would say that a horrible putt is always, unarguably, worse than a bad drive.

 

[medicinalfunk]

Missed 15 footer is definitely worse. With a bad drive you still have a chance to save par. A missed putt is a stroke gone forever.

that really depends on where you are playing, though. a heavily wooded course knocking your drive off the fairway into intense thicket because you barely nicked a tree less than 100 feet down the fairway and ballooned up. i watched 1000+ rated pros barely miss a drive through a tight spot and end up taking WAY more strokes than they would have just by missing, say, a birdie or par putt.

 

[xJFK]

a horrible putt.. nothing is worse then 3 putting from 10 feet away :doh:

you have a couple throws to save your bad drive for par

 

[stsren]

I'll go with a "horrible putt" being worse than a "bad drive."

You can make-up for a bad drive with a good upshot...
You can't do anything about a horrible putt...you already missed and cost yourself a stroke.