My tagline for this blog is "It's All About the Score." While I cover some of different things from what happens at special occasions to how you can enhance your swing, nearly any player can reduce a number of strokes from his or her score via applying some simple, common experience approach.
Raymond Floyd won 22 respectable PGA Tour activities that protected 4 majors -- two PGA Championships, one US Open and one Masters. (That doesn't encompass his worldwide or Champions Tour wins; upload the ones and the whole jumps up round sixty six.) He knows a touch bit about method.
In his 1998 book The Elements of Scoring he wrote that he struggled to become a winner when he made it onto the Tour. It was two years between his first two wins, and another four years before he won for a third time. As he put it. "I didn't run into a lot of players with more ability than I had. But on the tour, I ran into plenty who were scoring lower."
But after he turned forty -- he was nearly 44 when he won his US Open -- he says, "I had come full circle as a player -- from having all the tools but few skills, to having the skill to make the most of the tools I had left." His tools were his physical techniques, and his skill was his ability to use those techniques effectively when he didn't have his A-game.
Raymond consists of a listing of ten mistakes that amateurs continuously make that sabotage their games. And it changed into so blunt and smooth to recognize that I thought I'd pass it on.
- Underclubbing
- Swinging too hard
- Automatically shooting at the flag
- Not playing away from trouble
- Missing the green on the wrong side of the flag
- Trying for too much out of trouble
- Trying shots you have never practiced
- Panicking in the sand
- Misreading turf and lie conditions
- Consistently underreading the break on the greens
Note that simplest two of these -- numbers 7 and 8 -- are technique issues. The others are genuinely a remember of either not knowing your sport or refusing to behave on what you know. Raymond says that wide variety 4, for instance, is normally the result of a player seeking to play a shot that she or he knows they can't play (like looking to draw the ball off a danger when you continually hit a slice).
These errors are definitely the end result of refusing to simply accept your boundaries all through a spherical. They upload strokes for your rating, strokes that you could avoid in case you just used a bit not unusual sense.
Listen to what Raymond says. Avoid making these errors in the course of your subsequent spherical and see if your score isn't decrease.
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