The easiest way to lower your score is by keeping your ball on the fairway with each stroke you make with exception to the par three's where the ball needs to find the green with your tee shot.
Sound reasonable to you?
The truth is, keeping the ball in play and on the short grass as often as possible will enable you to make clean contact with the ball thus creating the much favoured backspin required to hold the green. However, to achieve this state of play you must not let your heart rule your head.
When you arrive at the 1st tee, or any tee for that matter, take a moment to look at the possible hazards between you and the green. The game of golf is like a game of chess. In chess your opponent will try very hard to block your moves therefore hindering your goal in trying to reach the other side of the board.
Likewise in golf, the course architect will have placed obstacles in your way to hinder your progress on your way to the green. The trick is to foresee what the course designer had in mind when he laid out this particular hole. All the obstacles between you and the green have been place in a strategic and logical manner. It is up to you to decide whether you are going to have 'a go' with the driver or avoid the architect's snare and tee off with a lesser club.
The secret to lowering your score is not rocket science. It is the ability to use your head when others around you are losing theirs. In other words let you opposition go explore the deep rough, the pot bunkers, the trees or the water hazards whilst you sensibly navigate your way around them.
Don't reach automatically for the 'Ego Blaster' (Driver), but think carefully and pick a spot on the fairway that is clear of any trouble then chose the correct club.
Next time you go to the golf course take a look at the players on any given par four or five hole and observe how they reach unconsciously for their drivers (The Ego Blasters). To them it's a 'macho' thing to see who can drive the furthest with no thought given to the dangers ahead.
Don't be like them. Instead, use your head and think your way around and watch your scores come tumbling down.
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