While golf is an incredibly difficult game, there are actually some really simple ways to improve your scores without changing your technique.
There are plenty of golf tips readily available to us all, but some of them are more useful and practical than others.
The main problem for amateur golfers is that a lot of the golf tips available online, either from teaching pros or PGA Tour players, are far too complicated.
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So why not make the game easier for yourself?
The good news is that we, at The Golfing Gazette, have compiled the most incredibly simple list of tips to help you lower your scores.
*Antony Martin is a former professional golfer, who played professionally on the Moonlight Golf Tour and the Grey Goose Gateway Tour in the United States in the early 2000s, winning three times. He competed against numerous big name players including Graeme McDowell in US Open qualifying and 2018 Pebble Beach Pro-Am winner Ted Potter Junior. Before turning pro, he held a career-low handicap of +4 and represented the county of Essex and England schoolboys. He now writes about the sport for a living.
The quickest way for amateur golfers to shave five shots from their scores
The quest to improve doesn’t need to be as difficult as so many amateurs make it.
By following these three very simple steps, your scores should improve overnight if you’re a mid-high handicap golfer…
Get fitted for every club in your bag
Please don’t underestimate the importance of getting fitted for your clubs.
You simply cannot expect to hit good golf shots on a consistent basis if your equipment doesn’t match your swing or athletic ability.
All amateur golfers should get fitted for lies and lofts, length and flex of their shafts and grip size.
Golf club manufacturing is certainly not a one-size-fits-all policy. If you haven’t been fitted for all of your clubs, there is a good chance that you consistently hit the same poor shot.
For instance, if you are tall and you’re irons sit too flat, the toe of the clubface will be too far off the ground and your consistent shot will probably be a pull to the left (if you’re right handed and vice versa for left-handed players).
While if you’re shorter than average in height and your clubs are too upright, the heel will be off the ground and your bad shot will be a block out to the right (again, if you’re right handed and vice versa for left-handed players).
The same can be said for the flex of your shafts. If they are too stiff for you, you will most likely hit a lot of blocks and the opposite is true if your shaft is too ‘whippy’.
Regardless of how hard and smart you practice, nothing will improve for you without a set of clubs that are not fit to your specifications.
Take your medicine when you find trouble
The problem with most mid-high handicap golfers is that they end up with too many big numbers on their scorecards.
And the reason for the double bogeys, triple bogeys and so on is the fact that so many amateur golfers attempt to hit recovery shots that they simply aren’t capable of.
Understand your limits and accept the fact that attempting the hero shot more often than not leads to card-wrecking scores.
Take your medicine, get your ball back in play and ensure that you give yourself the best chance of avoiding any score worse than a bogey.
This may sound like a fairly boring way to play golf but the real excitement of playing the game lies in shooting the lowest scores possible.
Amateur golfers failing to understand or accept their limits is arguably one of the biggest problems they have.
If you truly want to lower your handicap, take more of a cautious approach and you will quickly notice the difference when signing your scorecard at the end of your rounds.
Putt from off the green whenever it is possible to do so
As the old saying goes, an average putt is equal to a good chip.
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More importantly, though, a bad putt is far better than a bad chip.
Amateur golfers unnecessarily chipping from around the greens often leads to card-wrecking scores.
Are you someone who blades your chips through the greens? Or perhaps the chunked chip shot is your Achilles heel.
Either way, if you struggle when chipping simply switch out your wedge for a putter whenever it is possible to do so.
Obviously if you have an obstacle between your ball and the hole, or if your ball is sitting in deep rough, it will not be possible to use your putter.
However, if your ball ever finishes on the fringe or the fairway within 10-15 yards of the edge of the green, you should automatically be pulling the putter out of your bag.
By following the advice laid out above, there is no reason why you won’t be able to lower your scores by roughly five shots per round.
Make playing the game easier on yourself, not harder!
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