1. Practice putting.
One way to improve your putting is to become target oriented. If you are right handed this can be done by holding your putter with right hand only and swing your putter down the target line and feel it release. Imagine you have a ball in your hand and just throw it down your target line. You will develop a feel for the correct distance and become a better putter, not having to worry about the proper take away or any other bad thoughts, you're just thinking about the target. With this practice method you will become much better at distance control and this eliminates three putts.
2. Buy better equipment.
Most golfers want to lower their score and improve their golf game by buying the latest high-tech driver on the market. So year after year they spend anywhere from $350.00 to $500.00 for the latest driver and they're handicap doesn't improve at all. Instead they should spend the $350.00 to $500.00 and by a good laser range finder. This will lower their handicap quicker than any new driver ever will. Nothing is more helpful than knowing the correct distance, so that you can hit the shot with confidence.
3. Practice Chipping
The secret that all great chippers have is the ability to maintain the correct angle formed by the right forearm (if you're right handed) and the club shaft at address through the entire chipping motion. Many golfers try to add loft through the shot by flipping their hands upward, this almost every time leads to poor contact of the golf ball. At setup position, open your left foot slightly, play the ball off your right instep with about 70 percent of your weight on your left foot. This will cause the shaft to lean forward slightly, and cause your left wrist to straighten. Keep the left wrist straight all the way through impact, never letting the club head to get ahead of your hands. This ensures a crisp solid contact of the golf ball. The best chippers keep their hands and arms close to their body throughout the stroke.
To achieve this there is a great drill to use at the putting green, or at home in the yard. Get a broken shaft, alignment stick or a club. Attach or hold either one of these to the club you use for chipping. The alignment stick, shaft or club should extend past your left hip. The thing you are doing is making the club you use for chipping longer. When the club extends up past your rib cage you have to make the proper stroke or you will hit yourself in the ribs.
Another drill is to put a towel between your right elbow and your rib cage. The set up position is the same. Open your left foot slightly and play the ball off your right instep with about 70 percent of your weight on your left foot, place a towel between your right elbow and rib cage. Practice chipping without the towel dropping to the ground and you will become a lot better chipper of the golf ball.
The two drills accomplish the same thing however, I like the extended club method myself, you get better feedback. Practice either of these drills will save you a lot of strokes around the green, and what could be better than that?
4. Speed up play
Every golfer I know hates slow play. It interrupts the flow of the game and no one wants to play a round of golf that last longer than 4 1/2 hours. A good laser range finder can speed up play more than any piece of golf equipment on the market today. The laser range finders take the guess work out of the distance, nothing is worse than playing behind a group of guys and one guy has to step every yardage from every marker on the course. We all have experienced this at one time or another. If every golfer playing had a laser range finder the speed of play would be back to a 4 hour round or less again, which would greatly improve your golf game.
One way to improve your putting is to become target oriented. If you are right handed this can be done by holding your putter with right hand only and swing your putter down the target line and feel it release. Imagine you have a ball in your hand and just throw it down your target line. You will develop a feel for the correct distance and become a better putter, not having to worry about the proper take away or any other bad thoughts, you're just thinking about the target. With this practice method you will become much better at distance control and this eliminates three putts.
2. Buy better equipment.
Most golfers want to lower their score and improve their golf game by buying the latest high-tech driver on the market. So year after year they spend anywhere from $350.00 to $500.00 for the latest driver and they're handicap doesn't improve at all. Instead they should spend the $350.00 to $500.00 and by a good laser range finder. This will lower their handicap quicker than any new driver ever will. Nothing is more helpful than knowing the correct distance, so that you can hit the shot with confidence.
3. Practice Chipping
The secret that all great chippers have is the ability to maintain the correct angle formed by the right forearm (if you're right handed) and the club shaft at address through the entire chipping motion. Many golfers try to add loft through the shot by flipping their hands upward, this almost every time leads to poor contact of the golf ball. At setup position, open your left foot slightly, play the ball off your right instep with about 70 percent of your weight on your left foot. This will cause the shaft to lean forward slightly, and cause your left wrist to straighten. Keep the left wrist straight all the way through impact, never letting the club head to get ahead of your hands. This ensures a crisp solid contact of the golf ball. The best chippers keep their hands and arms close to their body throughout the stroke.
To achieve this there is a great drill to use at the putting green, or at home in the yard. Get a broken shaft, alignment stick or a club. Attach or hold either one of these to the club you use for chipping. The alignment stick, shaft or club should extend past your left hip. The thing you are doing is making the club you use for chipping longer. When the club extends up past your rib cage you have to make the proper stroke or you will hit yourself in the ribs.
Another drill is to put a towel between your right elbow and your rib cage. The set up position is the same. Open your left foot slightly and play the ball off your right instep with about 70 percent of your weight on your left foot, place a towel between your right elbow and rib cage. Practice chipping without the towel dropping to the ground and you will become a lot better chipper of the golf ball.
The two drills accomplish the same thing however, I like the extended club method myself, you get better feedback. Practice either of these drills will save you a lot of strokes around the green, and what could be better than that?
4. Speed up play
Every golfer I know hates slow play. It interrupts the flow of the game and no one wants to play a round of golf that last longer than 4 1/2 hours. A good laser range finder can speed up play more than any piece of golf equipment on the market today. The laser range finders take the guess work out of the distance, nothing is worse than playing behind a group of guys and one guy has to step every yardage from every marker on the course. We all have experienced this at one time or another. If every golfer playing had a laser range finder the speed of play would be back to a 4 hour round or less again, which would greatly improve your golf game.
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