Scoring Better

Congratulations again, you learned about Scoring on the Golf Course by better navigating your ball around the golf course to avoid trouble and to position your drives to make easy shots into the greens. We are now ready to take the next step, Scoring Better! Imagine taking the lesson described below.

You will be able to Score Better when you learn to hit the special shots that are required as you navigate your ball around the golf course. You will learn to hit them all as we work and play together but for now let’s first learn to play a fade in order to get around a tree. You have hit many fades, even slices, so you know that you can do it.

Now, I want you to go to the practice area and discover how you can hit fades. I need you to think about the mental picture you had of your shot’s trajectory and how you feel as you go through impact while you watch your shots fade. Set up to your each shot and use your waggle to give you a mindset for the same mental picture and the feel you used to make your prior balls fade. Keep repeating this exercise and try hard to equate your balls flight to what you pictured and how you felt going through impact.

Once you get the proper mental picture and feel, you will be able to hit a fade whenever you like. However, a piece of caution comes from Lee Trevino, he said “Be careful when you hit a fade that the ball doesn’t go straight!”

When we get together, I will ask you, “What have you been doing?” And you will answer,

w “I have been learning to form a mental picture and be aware of how I
feel going through impact for a straight shot and for a fade.”

w “I am developing the ability to hit a fade whenever I wish.”

I will ask you if you need to change your swing kinetics to hit the fade and you will answer, you don’t. You will explain to me that all you have to do is to change the mental picture and the feeling you have during your setup and waggle to hit a fade or a straight shot. You also admitted during your waggle, you used the clubface to put a bit of english on the ball for a fade as you would on a pool cue for a particular pool shot.

It will be fun for you to avoid learning intentional changes to your swing kinetics and to develop mental pictures and proper feelings to motivate the necessary changes needed to make many more specialty shots.

If a few minor tweeks to your swing are necessary to better shape your shots you can learn them by watching a video given by Kip Puterbaugh, PGA. Allow time for the video to download and after watching the video use your browser's back button to return to here.

Learning to make these specialty shots will make you a Player and lead to your Competing All Over Town.

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