Golf is a peculiar game. It is one built on confidence and understanding of your overall game. You do not have to be the best player and your success varies from day to day. Over he years, I have decreased the fragility of my golf game through three simple steps. They are not complicated and every player has the ability to adopt and implement these techniques without any change to their golf swing. Yup, I am confident that your game will improve if you even adopt one of my ways to lower your golf score.
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As Simple Chipping Motion For Success
Chipping the golf ball in or near a hole is an important skill every golfer needs to master. There are many different steps that a player can use in order to hone their chipping skills. There is, however, a fundamental movement that all players need to conquer in order to lower their up and down stat. It is simple and easy to execute as long as we stay focused on the chipping movement at hand. Therefore, if you want to lower your golf scores, I suggest you adopt this swing mechanic immediately.
Continue readingFixing Poor Contact With Your Putter
I will not use the dreaded words – the yips – because that is a complete lost of confidence with the flat stick. We can still struggle making poor contact with our putter without losing out confidence. Many times, it is something that we are suddenly doing or not doing with our putter stroke that is causing poor contact and more missed putts. It happens to me from time to time and I have found a way to fix this challenge is short order. It is not difficult and everyone can do it; but, it does require a bit of focus.
Continue readingKeeping Your Ball In Play For Lower Golf Scores
Achieving low golf scores is the aim of any golfer. If we were not interested, why would we keep score. Even when we are not writing a tally down, we are keeping track of our shots in our head. It is a natural thing for golfers and the main goal of playing golf……for most of us. 😉 The key to most successful rounds is keeping the ball in play. For beginners, hitting their ball anywhere on the grass is a success story. As they improve and develop a greater feel for the golf, keeping the ball on the fairway is the benchmark. For players like myself, keeping the ball on the optimum side of the fairway is considered a good shot. Basically, it is all relative, but the core goal is to keep the ball in play. The real question is how to achieve this goal more often than not?
->Can You See Your Golf Shot?
Many golfers approach their next shot with blinders on without any regard for what they are seeing. Each shot offers a unique opportunity to make a great play. The challenge is that many players to do not visualize their shot prior to making any attempt. This particular technique should and I will repeat, should, be part of your pre-shot routine. If you do not visualize what you are seeing, then how does your body and mind know what you want it to do? Visualization is a basic technique to low handicap players and is engrained in their pre-shot routine! This might be a bold statement and if you are opening your mind to the possibility of visualization, then the next question has to ‘how?’.
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The Grateful Golfer 