Getting to a new range of scores: how’d you breakthrough?

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Getting to a new range of scores: how’d you breakthrough?

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Every Shot.

Every time.

Every single shot.

If im over the ball and dont feel like im lined up right start all over again. Caused me to stop thinking about mechanics, changed the game for me.

Aiming the club face is great advice, helped me a lot

For reference , I am a 7.3 index. My keys to consistent scoring:
1) Know the exact distance you hit every club.
2) Avoid double bogey. If you bogey every hole the worst you shoot is 90.
3) pick out a down range target on all tee balls and an intermediate target on all iron shots.
4) everyone misses greens. Get a repeatable chipping method and practice it a ton. I put 100% of my weight on my left leg and chip with predominantly my right hand.
5) at impact your left arm MUST be straight
6) keep your head still and do not sway.
You gotta love this game!

Get out of bunker 1st time, avoid 3 putts, keep ball in play

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solely focus on the target.

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I’ll try this tomorrow.

Harvey Penick's Little Red Book took probably 4 shots off my game. Knowing that one chip, one putt gets the job done.

Best way to excel at chipping is to grab a handful of golf balls and walk around a green tossing them at the hole. Toss some high, medium, low and see how they react. You will learn that short game is all “feel” and this helps teach you that. Helps you learn to always continue accelerating through the stroke.

For example. Grab 12 balls. Toss 6, 2 high & soft, medium & run, or low runner. Then try to match the shots with a club in your hand.

You can do this with putting too.

I do better not knowing my score. I used to look add up the front nine and would either be happy or mad. I quit adding it up until I finished. I still have an idea of what I am shooting though but I try not to think about it. Play every hole against par.

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4) everyone misses greens. Get a repeatable chipping method and practice it a ton. I put 100% of my weight on my left leg and chip with predominantly my right hand.

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This is a big one. My advice on this is to be comfortable with a lofted club SW-LW but also be comfortable with a 8-9 iron keeping it low and rolling.

I recently went from a 9 to a 4. I improved my swing, yes, but I think my gains were due to changing my mental approach. So my mental tips (gleaned from Me and My Golf videos) are as follows:

1) The only thing that matters is the next shot. Focus on that. If you're still stewing over the double on the previous hole it will effect your focus. If you are fretting over holes you've yet to play it will effect your focus. If you are calculating in your head "if I only bogey the last 3 holes I'll break whatever" you will put undo pressure on yourself. I have a garmin golf watch where I enter my score. My goal is to be suprised when I enter my score on 18th green to see what I shot.

2) Don't be the bad luck guy lamenting every bad break you get on the course. Golf is full of good and bad breaks. People take for granted the good ones but wail that they got screwed when the get the bad ones. Focus on the next shot.

3) Don't be the "I suck at this hole, I always triple this hole" guy. Self fulfilling prophesy. Focus on executing the shot.

4) Unless your inside 100 yards, always aim for the center of the green. Forget about where the flag is. This is true for 3 handicaps as well as 18.

5) "A bogey is usually the result of a bad shot. A double bogey is usually the result of a stupid decision" Tom Kite
I know you really, really, really want to save par, but the odds of you hitting a 3 wood out of deep rough under a tree limb and over a pound are somewhere between 0-1%. Only attempt shots if you feel like you have a 7 out of 10 chance of being successful.

6) Don't feel compelled to explain to your playing partners every detail of your swing, technique and score. They really don't care. People only care about their own games.