Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 5; Flight Crew Total 178; Flight Crew Type 178
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure
I was PIC and the only person on board. On my turn from downwind to final I noticed my airspeed was at 60 so I took action to increase my air speed in the course of doing this I found that when I turned to final for Runway XX at ZZZ I was too high. I put the aircraft into a slip to get down. When I rounded out of the slip I was over the runway numbers and doing 79 knots. I should have gone around but instead made the bad decision to try to try to force the plane onto the runway. When I touched down before the mid way point of the runway I was still too fast and locked up the breaks. This resulted a sideways skid into the grass on the left side of the runway. I went 30 feet into the grass.  There was no damage to the airplane or injury to me. I taxied back to the hanger for inspection. Maintenance confirmed no damage. Looking back now I should have just gone around after I was not happy with my downwind to base turn.
GA pilot reported aircraft was too high but instead of going around; reporter decided to land aircraft resulting in a runway excursion.