https://pinhighpress.com/tags/approach-play/ Recent content in Approach Play on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/pin-high-the-standard-amateurs-refuse-to-use/ Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/pin-high-the-standard-amateurs-refuse-to-use/ <p>There is a phrase the Tour commentator uses, two or three times a Sunday telecast, that the average amateur has heard a thousand times and has never once made the standard of their own round. The phrase is pin high. The phrase is what the commentator says when a player has hit the ball the correct distance, give or take a yard, and missed the green left or right of the hole. The commentator says it with the same approving tone whether the ball finished six feet from the cup or thirty. The reason is that pin high, on the Tour, is the result. The line is the secondary detail. The number on the strokes-gained: approach card, for the shot that finishes the right distance from the green but the wrong side of the pin, is almost identical to the number for the shot that finishes the right line. The shot that finishes ten yards short or ten yards long is the shot that costs.</p>