You can attack pins or lay up. You can take driver off the tee or take an iron for position. No whether or not it’s advisable to do so, is another question, but you can certainly play defensive golf. You can lag putt anything from 15 foot out or you can go for them and end up 4 foot by the hole.
No wonder you lost to a few bob to a seventy year old
I was unfortunately party to a verbal exchange between a moderator and another forumite last night. This will make grim reading for @Bandage. It was suggested that when shane Lowry removed his cap he had quite a large forehead. It was further suggested that a decent golfer ‘could pitch and hold a ball on that forehead with a little spin’. Laughter ensued and it was shortly after this that a comparison was made between Lowry and an absent moderator. The laughter continued.