rsvman2 I've watched a lot of his free stuff and liked it. He's looking at risk and reward from a numbers standpoint, like strokes gained.
It'd be more useful if I had power. Then I'd have more course management decisions to make. I like his advice for approaches and short game. He says that your lateral misses on approaches will mostly be within 10% of the shot distance, if you are a decent player. So adjust your aim to get that 10% on the green or in the best place. If the pin is 4 yards from the right, then from 150 your 10% miss is 15 yards left-right. You need to aim 3-4 yards left of that right pin. That makes perfect sense and is easy enough to add into my game. Even though from 150 my misses are worse than that, hahaha. If anything I am probably overly conservative in my targets. I leave myself a lot of 30-40 footers. Nothing worse than aiming 30 feet left to stay away from the bunker, and then hitting it exactly to that aim. 😏
I like his observation that in the short game: a 15 foot leave and a 30 foot leave are essentially the same result. A two putt. Meaning, if I am short sided, don't try the risky and unlikely shot inside 15 feet. Get it on the green. I'm not very good at taking this advice, though.
I was a little surprised at his advice about birdies. Namely, they just happen, you can't really force them. He says that is true even on tour. Most of the birdies are on par fives. The rest just happen. I agree that bogeys on par fives, and doubles anywhere, are killers. His point would be not to take poor risks that lead to those. So don't shoot at short side pins for instance.
I like this kind of thing because I never played with any good players who might have taught me how to actually score. I spent my whole life hacking it around and trying to make better swings and putts. When it came to thinking my way around the course, that was hardly on my radar.