"Playing The Course And Not Your Will!"
Besides playing with a strong mental attitude, you’ll be lowering your score if you go out on each and every course you play on, or even if you stay at your community course, and learn to play it and take what comes rather than forcing the course to do what you want.
Many people do just that. They try to impose their will in different situations, by trying to hit the ball with a driver rather than a three iron, than just submitting to the course and playing to what you’re given.
This is where you can drastically reduce your scores. It can be a difficult thing to do especially if you’re a beginner or a recreational player. Most often players with high handicaps want to go out and do things immediately to improve their game. They focus on their shot that they lose their focus on what could happen next. But, if you use a way of managing the course to your liking there are so many ways you can lower your score.
Like I stated above, many people will go out and automatically use their brand new driver, that they had to have, for each and every tee shot. Most of the time, it’s a little roller thirty yards down the fairway. How does that help you on a 500 yard par 5?
When the course gives you a par 5 and you know it’s 520 yards to the green, why not do what we talked about in the last chapter? Use your strength. For me it would be to grab my three iron, put a little air under the ball and get down the fairway 180 yards. Three strokes would easily get me to the green for a great chance at par or birdie.
Remember that tournament that I did so poorly at? Well, I did get me a shiny new driver, so I know firsthand how badly that can work out for you if you’re not use to that type of club. I should have trusted my three iron. I just figured out how to get air under the ball and that was my club of choice.
Instead I had to be like everyone else and squib a little 80 yarder and end up with a double bogie. Course management isn’t hard to do, it’s all a matter of pride. It’s all about whether or not you want to submit to the course and how it’s laid out rather than trying to force everything to suit your needs.
Paying attention to things like angles of approach, where your ball is in reference to hazards and distances and how well you drive using different clubs can all save you a considerable number of strokes on each round.
If you do nothing else except knowing the course layout and knowing your own skills you can change your score from a 90 to a 75 easily.
Changes like the club you use for driving off the tee can change where your ball lies and make the difference between having to chip over a bunker or having a wide open shot at the green. Remember, it’s all about the strategy you use on the course. Where you want the ball to be to get ready for your next shot. Or in other words, playing into your strengths.
If you know that your four iron will land you in a position to take two open shots on a relatively unobstructed approach to the green and that your driver will put you in a position where you’re not as strong, like hitting over a hazard, then you should lay up for the two shots rather than going for it all with a driver. Then having to make a shot you’re not comfortable with.
It’s common sense really. It’s thinking about what you know you can do and using the course and the way it’s laid out, to put it into action.
Visualize the course you play at most of the time in your head right now. Pick your favorite hole? How do you currently play that hole? Fly over it in your mind. Put a visual image of it in your mind and see yourself playing that hole now with the new strategies you’ve learned. By using your strengths and taking time to be patient and relaxed.
Would you use your driver to try and get it over that water hazard on your first shot, or would you grab your 4 iron?
Look over the whole course. Knowing how to play each individual hole already in your mind, before you get to actually playing, can lessen the chances for mistakes and surprises.
Section III "Physical Improvements and Strategies"
In the following section you're going to actually get into the meat and potatoes of your golf game. No more mental magic, but actual golf strategies that will create an avenue for you to even lower your scores more.
Make no mistake, if you follow the tips so far in this manual you're going to drop a considerable number of strokes from your game. You're going to be a vastly improved player.
But, now you're going to learn some physical attributes you can apply to your game to lower that handicap even more.
We're going to cover everything from simple everyday use strategies to some techniques that take specialized equipment and time.
Besides playing with a strong mental attitude, you’ll be lowering your score if you go out on each and every course you play on, or even if you stay at your community course, and learn to play it and take what comes rather than forcing the course to do what you want.
Many people do just that. They try to impose their will in different situations, by trying to hit the ball with a driver rather than a three iron, than just submitting to the course and playing to what you’re given.
This is where you can drastically reduce your scores. It can be a difficult thing to do especially if you’re a beginner or a recreational player. Most often players with high handicaps want to go out and do things immediately to improve their game. They focus on their shot that they lose their focus on what could happen next. But, if you use a way of managing the course to your liking there are so many ways you can lower your score.
Like I stated above, many people will go out and automatically use their brand new driver, that they had to have, for each and every tee shot. Most of the time, it’s a little roller thirty yards down the fairway. How does that help you on a 500 yard par 5?
When the course gives you a par 5 and you know it’s 520 yards to the green, why not do what we talked about in the last chapter? Use your strength. For me it would be to grab my three iron, put a little air under the ball and get down the fairway 180 yards. Three strokes would easily get me to the green for a great chance at par or birdie.
Remember that tournament that I did so poorly at? Well, I did get me a shiny new driver, so I know firsthand how badly that can work out for you if you’re not use to that type of club. I should have trusted my three iron. I just figured out how to get air under the ball and that was my club of choice.
Instead I had to be like everyone else and squib a little 80 yarder and end up with a double bogie. Course management isn’t hard to do, it’s all a matter of pride. It’s all about whether or not you want to submit to the course and how it’s laid out rather than trying to force everything to suit your needs.
Paying attention to things like angles of approach, where your ball is in reference to hazards and distances and how well you drive using different clubs can all save you a considerable number of strokes on each round.
If you do nothing else except knowing the course layout and knowing your own skills you can change your score from a 90 to a 75 easily.
Changes like the club you use for driving off the tee can change where your ball lies and make the difference between having to chip over a bunker or having a wide open shot at the green. Remember, it’s all about the strategy you use on the course. Where you want the ball to be to get ready for your next shot. Or in other words, playing into your strengths.
If you know that your four iron will land you in a position to take two open shots on a relatively unobstructed approach to the green and that your driver will put you in a position where you’re not as strong, like hitting over a hazard, then you should lay up for the two shots rather than going for it all with a driver. Then having to make a shot you’re not comfortable with.
It’s common sense really. It’s thinking about what you know you can do and using the course and the way it’s laid out, to put it into action.
Visualize the course you play at most of the time in your head right now. Pick your favorite hole? How do you currently play that hole? Fly over it in your mind. Put a visual image of it in your mind and see yourself playing that hole now with the new strategies you’ve learned. By using your strengths and taking time to be patient and relaxed.
Would you use your driver to try and get it over that water hazard on your first shot, or would you grab your 4 iron?
Look over the whole course. Knowing how to play each individual hole already in your mind, before you get to actually playing, can lessen the chances for mistakes and surprises.
Section III "Physical Improvements and Strategies"
In the following section you're going to actually get into the meat and potatoes of your golf game. No more mental magic, but actual golf strategies that will create an avenue for you to even lower your scores more.
Make no mistake, if you follow the tips so far in this manual you're going to drop a considerable number of strokes from your game. You're going to be a vastly improved player.
But, now you're going to learn some physical attributes you can apply to your game to lower that handicap even more.
We're going to cover everything from simple everyday use strategies to some techniques that take specialized equipment and time.
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