Course Management

A whole round without losing a ball!!

Yes it can be done. Good course management can be the key.

All you need is to plan ahead, sharpen up your thinking, and curb your natural instinct to whack the ball as hard as you can!!

Do You Know How Far You Hit The Ball?

Okay, you don’t have to know to the nearest inch, but you should have a rough idea, how far your ball goes when you connect properly. ( don’t know how to connect properly, then read my new book – see ebook button)

When you hit the ball wayward, you can pace out your shot to a marker on the course, or by finding the distance on a course planner.

Improve your course management skills by using all the means available to you.

Keep Your Eye On The Ball.

We all do it- turn away in disgust when we hit a bad shot. We see it done on tv by the pros, but they have plenty of spectators to find the ball.

So if you want to find your ball, stay watching the shot. Mark a position against a tree, bush or some distant object.

Take A Minute To Look Where All The Trouble Is!

Take time to look at where the trouble is on the hole you are playing. Do this whilst your playing partners are playing so you don’t delay play.

Course management, once learnt, will be done without you realising that you are doing it.

It’s easy to hit a careless shot and run up a bogey or double bogey just because you did not bother to observe the lay of the land and where potential problems lie.

Before you play every shot, pick out where you want your ball to go. Keep this thought and you will play a more positive shot to where you want the ball to go.

Pick Out Close Up Targets Along Your Target Line.

It’s not easy to line up with something 200 yards away, especially as you get older!

Poor lining up causes many lost balls So, instead make it a policy of standing behind the your ball and pick out a distant and near object on your target line, and use the close up point as your reference when you address the ball.

Don’t get so carried away with swing techniques that you forget your target!

Play Tight Or Very Difficult Par Fours, As Par Fives.

The chances are that your handicap will give you a shot on these holes.

So focus on your net par, and give yourself 3 shots to the green. You will be amazed at how often you will come away with an actual par.

Perhaps you should think of using 2 irons and a pitching wedge instead of trying to hammer a driver.

Don’t use 1have a go1 tactics unless you have plenty of room or you are just practising.

Use The Width Of The Tee.

Pick out which side of the fairway will cost you a lost ball, and which side will let you get away with a slightly wayward tee shot.

Then tee off from the side nearest to the trouble and play away from the trouble. That way you can hit a poor shot and still not be in the mire.

Don’t switch to auto pilot and march blindly up to the middle of the tee. The tee’s width is there to help you.

Learn To Hit The Ball Softer For More Control.

Grip down the shaft a little, take more club than normal ( don’t worry about what your partner is playing, it is about how many not what club you used!)

Widen your stance

Don’t however try to hit softer by swinging slower, but try to get more rythym into your swing, and swing through the ball.

Keep Your Target Small.

Turn the shot around. Imagine you are trying to drive back to the tee from the middle of the fairway. You would have to have a much sharper focus.

Now do this for your next shot to the green, pick a precise landing area. By using better course management you will have picked out the spot where you want your ball to land, and hit towards that spot.

Stay Alert To Where You Have Lost Shots.

Good course management means staying alert to where you lost shots the last time you played your home course. This can lead to sharper thinking on how to deal with a particular hole.

If you have developed a slice and there is trouble down the right, put your driver away and use an iron you are comfortable with, and get the ball in play.

Learn the Rules.

You will be surprised how well you can score if you learn to play with the rules.

Sometimes the rules can give you a break. Think about where to drop instead of mentally thinking you have blown it.

Besides good course management there is a need to have a consistent and repeatable golf swing.

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