Do you go to the range and hit balls until your hands bleed? Do you read golf related magazine articles? Do you pay for lessons and have someone try to change a swing you have had for 15 years? Well don't feel ashamed to answer yes to any of these questions. This is where the majority of golfers go to lower their scores. Although the easiest and quickest answer to lowering your scores might be right in your GOLF BAG. Thats right buried deep down in the bottom of that golf bag where lost tees and golf gloves have come to find there final resting spot you can find the magic to improving your scores. All of us have things we are better at then others, so why then do we always want to practice what we are best at? Because we dont want to look like a fool on the range hitting a shot that we are not comfortable hitting. But if you start to think where you are losing your strokes during a round, you will start to realize that many of the areas that are causing the most havoc on your game are the areas you need the most work. Great example........the Gap Wedge. Many of us dont have them in our bags, and you are not fully to blame. The most common set includes the clubs 3-PW and maybe a SW. And most clubs have a 10 yard gap in between each iron. Most golfers dont even notice that there PW and SW have about a 20-25 yard gap between them. So..... if your PW goes 125 yards and your SW goes 100 yards what do you do with a 110 yard shot? Well...you can choke down on a PW and put a 3/4 swing on it. Or you can muscle up on a SW and most likely hit it thin or chili-dip it. Well what happens if there is a bunker in the front of the green and the flag is tucked right behind it. Well you give a stroke or two back to the golfing gods most likely. This is generally something very simple and often overlooked because you might have hit a great PW shot and landed it right in the middle of the green. But you didn't even think that if you had a Gap Wedge you might have been able to one putt instead of 2 or 3 putting from where you lie with your PW shot. This might only cost you 2-3 strokes a round but things like this make a big difference in that final score you see at the end of your score card. Other problem areas include the following: * Fairway Woods - They are tough to control and can get you OB once or twice a round. Try a Hyrbid they are shorter clubs which help with accuracy and you do not give up much distance at all. * Wedge Set - If you dont have a 52, 56, 60 degree wedge you should invest in a set, it will lower your score a lot quicker then a $400 driver. * Better launch angle on your driver - Yes the worm burner days are over for a reason. * Proper length clubs - if you feel like they are too short or too long then they probably are. |
