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Old 05-08-2007, 01:47 AM
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Re: hitting greens

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Originally Posted by PGAplayer#1 View Post
Ive noticed lately that my scores go down alot because ofmy not hitting greens.Does anyone know any accuracy drills or anything to help this problem?
Best advise is to LEARN what your tendancies are, fade or draw, hook or slice and play to it. The vast majority of high handicapper have no idea what their bad shot or misses are likely to do, I know of no low handicapper or pro that does not know this....this also goes to course management, if your bad shot is a fade, then why try to draw if you can only pull it off 2 out 10 times, would it not make more sense to play the shot you do 8 out 10 times. Golf is a game of misses, what the pro has learned is to plan for his weakness, not his strenght, because he knows he is not going to hit perfect shots, so they always plan for where his bad shot will put him.

Example - if my tendency is to fade, I would never ever try to draw the ball into a hole with water on the right and I won't try to fade it in either, because I might over do it and slice, same results. Just setup for draw left, if you pull it off, your on the left side of the green, hitting straight (slight bad shot) your on the pin, bad shot with the fade, your on the right side of the green. You have covered all your bases to finish on the green or very near it. Trying for the perfect shot leaves you with only one way to be on the green, everything else gets you in trouble, not good course strategy, you have to think about what your doing out there, work with what you have, not what you want.
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