Cutting the corner feels aggressive. It's actually the slow way to a bogey. Here's the aim that scores.
Aiming at the inside corner to "cut" the dogleg, which brings the elbow bunkers and trees into play and shrinks your margin to nothing.
The inside line saves ~10-15 yards but roughly triples your odds of a blocked or recovery second shot. Expected score goes up, not down.
The fat, outside-half of the fairway, left-center on a right dogleg. A slightly longer approach from short grass beats a wedge-out from trouble every time.
≈ 0.3-0.5 strokes per hole like this, and far fewer doubles over a season.
Strokes-saved figures are approximate, based on expected-value (strokes-gained) course management for a mid-handicap golfer (roughly 8-18). These are real ranges, not guarantees.
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