What golf tip was helpful in lowering your golf score and you would like to share?

[ks8829]

Lets talk about golf tips that help lower your golf scores. Thanks in advance for your comments.

[Ben]

Being a 6.8 you have all the physical skills to lower your score already. I'd recommend working on your short game, including your putting. Getting up and down more often than not, paired with making birdie putts is what will lower your score.

[ks8829]

Play with a better player

[ks8829]

I need to practice my short game from around the greens to within 50 yards. I have recorded fairways hit, greens on regulations, putts per round

[Shindig]

Lets talk about golf tips that help lower your golf scores. Thanks in advance for your comments.

Want a lower sum at the end of the day? Play fewer holes.

Seriously, though. Practice chipping in. I've done this a few times when I had a few hours to kill: I go to the short-game area with a shag bag of 2-3 dozen balls and placed them around the area. I wasn't allowed to leave until I chipped in twice, and the two times couldn't be from the same area. Also, sand play. Man, I've had a few times getting it close out of the sand. I wish I had a place where I could practice my sand, but the practice bunkers around here generally have precious little sand, presumably because everyone else hits all the sand out. If I could get it close out of the sand consistently, I'd be a happier man, even if I rarely hit the green-side bunkers.

[lamebums]

Lets talk about golf tips that help lower your golf scores. Thanks in advance for your comments.

Shorten your backswing, especially if you make more than your share of misses with irons. You might lose a few yards but you'll eliminate probably 70 percent of your problems with ballstriking. It'll allow you to hit more greens and take pressure off your short game.

And in my case, stop trying to murder the ball. I'm guilty of this off the tee but at least I've given up going for a par 5 in two when it was 550 yards long and my drive only went 250.

[countjyro]

Don't hit the hero shot. I'm a very-very-high handicapper, and so I need to tell myself this a lot. I end up behind a lot of trees, and deep in rough, and need to remember to just get to a safer spot and then go for it.

[albatroz]

HUMMMMMM 6.5 handicap .... Now is the time to have your self fitted with new set of irons that can enhance your game to the next level . If you are using standard set then it would be nice if you can go to your local golf pro shop to have your club bent in an angle either - or plus in accordance to how you see it fit . Project X in R flex would do your iron game great now that you can easily do a draw or fade .

[ks8829]

Albatroz
I have considered the Project X 5 shaft, I have been following them on ebay. What do you know about these shafts. I know they are lighter than my Dynamic Gold R300 shaft.

My specificiation books says:
weight of shafts:
Dynamic Gold R300 127g
Project X 5 115g

Thanks in advance for your reply.

[keiyoz]

The most important tips for me thus far have been: swing the shoulders through the ball and minimize hand/wrist movement.

This helped my consistency in ball-striking. In the next few months, I hope to learn more short game tips to score better.

[Masa]

One of my co-workers once told me to pick my favorite club and try to hit my shots so that I would be hitting my favorite club for my approach to the green. My favorite club is my 8-iron so instead of automatically blasting driver on every par 4 and 5, I might hit a 5-iron to get the ball in the fairway right around the distance I hit my 8-iron. So on a par 5, instead of hitting driver, hybrid, 3/4 wedge, I'll end up hitting driver 7-iron, 8-iron. If I don't have a chance to get on in two, he told me it's a better idea to hit an approach that I'm comfortable with.

I was also told to never focus on the previous shot or the result of the shot you just hit, just pick a target, line up, and hit the shot. I had some major issues at first where I would self destruct because of a few bad shots. None of this, "crap, I'm behind a tree, now I'm screwed" more just thinking about what to do from there, usually means playing it safer and punching it back out to the fairway where I have a chance.

That's about the only playing advice I've been given, everything else has been attempting to work with my swing. I'm a lefty that plays right handed, apparently I have a little bit of a tennis-inspired swing, not sure what that means. My biggest problem is tensing up my left hand at the transition of my swing and it jacks with my timing and tempo, so the pro has been working on getting me to keep my hands really relaxed to where I feel like I'm barely holding onto the grip. I've been working on it a lot recently but haven't been able to actually play to see how it will translate to the course. I need to get out there before the winter hits though.

[smurphy70]

Shorten your backswing, especially if you make more than your share of misses with irons. You might lose a few yards but you'll eliminate probably 70 percent of your problems with ballstriking. It'll allow you to hit more greens and take pressure off your short game.

I totally agree, and I've reached a point now that I'm longer than I was before, with my long backswing. I think it's because I hit it on the button more often and my swing has gotten more efficient, most of the speed is generated in the last couple of feet of the swing anyway, a long lead in just gives you more time to screw it up.

[Jack_2251]

Umm well dont think about the shots too much, just think about a good swing and smash it down there. Swing hard and aggresively, play aggresive as well.

[tm22721]

Here's a few hard-won tips that seem to work for me.

-Keeping left arm close to chest cures a host of ills
-Shorten and slow down backswing
-Hit down on ball for good ball contact

[ks8829]

Pilates exercise for strength and flexibility

I am able to turn better and hit the drives farther. The stretching also helped strengthen my stomach muscle and keep my back injury free.

[Zakko]

Don't suck

[allin]

Always try to maintain a feeling of freedom in your shoulder turn and arms. When you have that feeling your tempo is almost always solid no matter how hard you swing.

[Stuart]

Do you have any specific short game and putting drills you could share with us? My chipping is pretty good, but obviously could always be better, but my putting is pretty poor. I usually have a couple of 3 putts per round...which drives me totally crazy...lol. :)

Being a 6.8 you have all the physical skills to lower your score already. I'd recommend working on your short game, including your putting. Getting up and down more often than not, paired with making birdie putts is what will lower your score.