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Seven On Course Tips for Improving Your Score

The fairway bunker shot

When You Really Need To Bust One From The Tee

Golf professionals are remarkable in the way they consistently shoot good scores. This is partly to do with their ability, but it is also to do with how they handle themselves on the course.

All golf professionals spend some time on the practice fairway before playing for two reasons. Firstly to warm up their muscles so that when they get onto the golf course they are ready to play right from the first shot.

Secondly, they also need to find out what they have to play with on the day. Some days it will be their natural shot, say a draw. Other days, no matter what they try to do they can't hit their natural shot. On this day they just play with a fade.

One sure way of gaining some consistency in your rounds or eliminating the really bad round is to take what you have got on any given day to the golf course and play with it instead of fighting it around the course and making changes.

For instance. If you normally play with a slight draw and for some reason on this particular day your draw has turned into a fade. Don't try to find out why on the course. Just play with a fade for the day. In other words just start aiming slightly left of the target (assuming you are right handed). Given this scenario it is probably a good idea to allow an extra club as you may find that while hitting with a fade you lose a little bit of distance.

This will enable you to shoot a reasonable score as your ball should still be somewhere near the green, and not in the trouble.

However, if you start experimenting on the course you could hit some terrible shots which could result in a round blowing out.

It is inconceivable that they could play well day in and day out. They to have bad days. However, these bad days don't blow out to the same extent as an average weekender.