The Best Golf Playing Tip Ever!

Arguably the best golf course tip ever!!!

This is a hard accolade to award for sure, seeing as
everyone has the “secret tip” that will turn you from a
weekend mid 80′s into a club champion, or a regional
champion into a national tour player. Although there are
too many to mention, there is one that has always sprung
to mind whenever I am questioned, what is the best tip?

As far as golf swing tips go there are some I will provide
at another time, same goes for golf fitness tips or
on-course nutrition. What I am referring to today is
on-course thought patterns and habits that will enhance
your focus, lower your scores and give you the edge
against your rivals.

I played a good round today;

I hit 12 fairways and 15 greens for a 67, would have been
better but I missed a couple of birdie opportunities and I
hit one bad shot that cost me a double bogey!! I hit some
sweet drives, one being on a 500 + yard par 5 that left me
a mid wedge into the green. So I was following my usual
routine, it is when we go off the rails slightly that we
need the extra help.

You see I had to pass this greatest golf playing tip onto
a French colleauge. He was swinging well, especially as
over the the last few weeks we have been working on his
range of motion, his flexibility for golf and agility in
the golf swing. But he was still rushing a few shots and
some went into the trees or missed the green, and he was
getting frustrated and missing more shots… He needed a
different focus.

Before I reveal what I said to him, here are some other
tips that I advocate;

Picking the smallest target you can see on every shot
especially drives off the tee (I use this every time).

Under pressure situations, ensure complete full shoulder
turns to complete the backswing to reduce the risk of a
short snappy golf swing that “comes over the top”.

Always focus on being pin high.
With any approach shot, pay less attention to lie of the
green, direction of your shot, putting it close etc. If
you are consistently pin high, you will never be in too
bad of shape.

My favourite though comes from Sergio Garcia multi-time
PGA tour winner, Ryder Cup Star and winner of the 1997
British Boys Championship. The reason I mention the under
18 championship is because he was up against a great
friend of mine Richard Jones in the final. Now
unfortunately, as Richard will attest, Sergio was just too
good, he possessed an athletic golf swing, physical
strength, and seemingly back then a putting skill that he
seems to have forgotten recently – due to overuse and
micro tears in muscle because of his style of swing and
mechanics.

However, Sergio taught my friend one great lesson and the
tip that has stayed with us for all these years.

All you need is one good golf shot per hole.

That’s it.

Think about it, we are on a 427 yard par 4, let’s say you
push your drive right, it does not matter if the next shot
you play is an amazing curved sliding fade out the rough to
make it onto the green.

One good shot per hole…

Maybe not, maybe you can only advance it 60 yards up, the
next iron shot from 160 yards is a crisply struck shot to
to 4 feet. Par save. Perhaps you hit that iron shot a
little pushed again, putting you 30 feet from the hole,
but you make that putt because that was your one good shot
this hole.

One good shot per hole…

Likewise, after a half decent tee shot – maybe mistimed
and bit out the toe of the driver, but just off the
fairway – you might misjudge the wind and your iron
approach shot sails into a sand trap, but who is to say
you cannot put that bunker shot right into the hole?!?

One good shot per hole…

Get the idea? It shows that you can forget about the
previous shot every time, and try your best to make the
next one, a well thought out and executed golf shot, be a
second, third or fourth shot on the hole.

This has been a focus and thought process for me ever
since, and it worked wonders for my colleauge who shot 4
below his handicap of 9.

Try it yourself, you just might like it.

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Alex Fortey was a Professional golf tour player, and is a
golf strength and conditioning and nutrition specialist
who provides custom specialized programs, nutrition,
coaching and training to develop athletic golf physiques
for club golfers to tour wannabe professionals. Visit
http://athleticgolftraining.com for more.

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