Lowering Your
Average Score


Do you know how to lower your average score?

Most golfers don’t.

Most golfers believe that lower scores are achieved through purchasing expensive equipment, changing their golf swing, and devoting more time to practice. 

Unfortunately, that formula doesn’t work. 

The fact is that a golfer’s average score, more than anything else, reflects their understanding of golf.

Here are my six steps to lower scores: 


STEP ONE: Forget about golf club hype. 

Expensive brand name golf clubs will never be the answer to your problems. Let’s face it, today’s average golfer, playing with far superior equipment, is scoring no lower than the average golfer did 40 years ago.

An expensive brand name putter is not going to read the greens for you or stroke the putt.

An expensive brand name driver is not going to suddenly provide you with additional clubhead speed and the ability to make square contact.

And you don’t get a better iron swing with an expensive set of brand name irons.

Regardless of how much money you’re willing to pay, there are no magic golf clubs and there never will be. 

All you need are golf clubs that are easy for you to use - golf clubs with which you are able to make square and centered contact and achieve a playable trajectory the highest percentage of time. 

These clubs can be acquired through working with a competent club fitter. They shouldn’t be expensive and they’re all you’ll ever need. 


STEP TWO: Forget about golf swing hype. 


Continually changing your golf swing is as useless as continually changing your golf clubs. 

There are no magic golf swings.

Have you ever noticed that the best players in the world all have very different looking swings? That’s because how you swing doesn’t matter. 

What’s important is learning how to manage the swing you have. Once you learn how to manage the swing you have, you can forget about searching for a new swing forever..


STEP THREE: Learn how lower scores are achieved.


Golfers have been taught that scoring lower involves hitting the ball farther and increasing the number of good golf shots per round.

That sounds logical, but it’s not true.

Lower scores are realized through acquiring better distance CONTROL, and hitting fewer PENALIZING shots per round.

The long hitter’s actual advantage will always be relative to his ability to CONTROL his distances. Without distance control, he has no advantage at all. 

Furthermore, most golfers don’t understand that penalizing shots hurt their score far more than good shots help their score. 

Hitting fewer penalizing shots per round is not difficult. It only requires a more efficient APPROACH to shotmaking. You can start doing that immediately. 


STEP FOUR: Think less about the things you have no control over

While the golf swing moves far too fast to be consciously controlled, golfers remain fixated on trying to find a way to consciously control it.

While golfers have absolutely no control over what might happen to the ball after it leaves the clubface, they worry about it continuously.

They also worry about what their final score might be, what other golfers are thinking, and how other golfers are playing.

The fact is, when playing, golfers spend most of their time thinking about things they have no control over. When you focus predominately on things you have no control over, you play AIMLESSLY.

The more AIMLESSLY you play, the more PENALIZING shots you’ll hit, and the HIGHER you’ll score.


STEP FIVE: Think more about the things you can control.


So what can you control?

You can optimize your shot selection.

You can establish a clear and positive intention to create that exact shot.

You can setup to the ball in a manner that compliments that exact shot.

You can maintain a positive focus during the swing motion.

When you focus predominately on the things you can control, you play golf with a higher degree of PURPOSE. As a result, you’ll hit fewer penalizing shots, and LOWER your average score.


STEP SIX: Keep your focus in the present moment.


Your body, your golf clubs, the golf ball and the golf course all exist in the present moment. 

All creation takes place in the present moment.

Your mind, however, prefers to linger in the past or jump into the future. It likes to critic the results of your last swing while, at the same time, worry about where the ball might go after this swing.

If you intend to improve, you’ll need to learn how to keep your focus centered in the present moment. 

 

 

Those six steps represent a very brief outline of what my book covers in much more detail. If you’d like to learn more about my book, please take a moment to LOOK INSIDE.

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