OB is the most expensive miss in golf: two strokes gone. Set up so your bad swing simply can't reach it.
Aiming down the middle with OB tight on one side. Now a normal-sized miss to that side is stroke-and-distance, the most expensive mistake in golf.
OB costs ~2 full strokes. Shift your aim, and even your tee position, away from it: you trade a small chance of the far rough for eliminating the disaster.
Tee up on the OB side and aim to the safe side; even the far rough or a bunker is a bargain next to re-teeing. If your shape runs toward the OB, take less club.
≈ 0.5-0.8 strokes per hole where OB is genuinely in range: the single biggest scorecard saver.
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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