Break 80? Follow me
IstockGolf.com / 02/11/2009
Break 80? Follow me
You have been playing golf for a while, perhaps five years or more. You have built a competent golf swing and you play a decent game. With a handicap of 14, you regularly shoot around 85. You almost always break 90 and sometimes you go as low as 81 or 82. But you have reached a plateau and you are ready to break through it. You want to break 80 and do it on a regular basis.
Step 1
Get a few extra yards with your driver. You have a good swing and you hit a decent ball off the tee. But you could probably use 10 to 15 extra yards on your drive. In order to do this, angle your left foot out. This will promote more of a hip turn and a weight shift on your drive and should give you extra yardage on your drive.
Take advantage of your fairway shots. Average golfers tend to get anxious when they have hit a great shot into the fairway off the tee. Instead of hitting an excellent second shot on to the green or just short of it, they tighten up and hit it off course. A good golfer takes advantage of his great lie by hitting a smooth accurate shot. He focuses mentally and lets his fundamentals take over.
Learn the nuances of each one of your pitching wedges. If you are regularly shooting in the mid-80s you have the skills to handle a gap wedge (on shots of 70 to 100 yards) and a lob wedge (shots of 70 yards or less to the green). Go to the practice range with these two clubs and swing the club with the purpose of hitting your approach shots within 15 feet of the hole. Put your fear behind you and drop the ball on to the green with your gap or lob wedge.
Attack the ball aggressively from the bunker. Average golfers quake when they are in the bunker around the green. Good golfers relish the opportunity. Realize that you have to hit behind the ball in a greenside bunker and that you don't hit the ball. You hit the sand behind the ball and that explosion sends your ball toward the green. Practice this shot every time you go to the range.
Learn the nuances of putting. Read the greens and hit your putt. Most golfers who take three or four practice swings and spend more than 15 seconds standing over their putt tend to miss their putts badly. You want to walk on to the green with confidence and strike the ball with a pendulum-type swing. Read the breaks in the green and go for the putt. Don't leave it short.
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