tuition & instruction
Issue 6:
Your Coach in your Pocket Series...
Your Coach in Your Pocket, Andre Louw
Managing your game around a golf course
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et’s do a quick recap on the previous articles and what we covered. We started with the understanding of how the club movement affects the golf ball, we know that the more you understand how the club affects the ball the more consistent you can become. We then looked at getting better off the tee and how understanding the different potential penalties that you will incur by missing the fairway can help you with more insight as to where you can save shots. In issue 3 we covered approach play, now this is any shot where you attempt to hit the green, what you will notice in the stats is the trend between having good quality approach stats and victories on the PGA Tour. To view this trend make sure you visit the Golf Stats Coach Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/GolfStatsCoach/
skills in each aspect of the game, how do we put this all together? By understanding how to better manage our game and current skill set around the golf course. Here are some strategy tips to help you with that: 1. Free up and rip it of the tee Longer drives convert to lower scores, we can clearly see a trend among the players on tour who are consistently in the running and the distance they hit it off the tee. We also know that a 30 yard advantage of the tee will gain you 7.25 shots in a 4 round tournament. Have a look at this image explaining the advantage of longer drives. This is based on a 10 handicap player.
We then looked at short game and putting in issues 4 and 5 respectively, what we can learnt is that improving your skills in these areas can definitely lead to lowering your scores. Now that we have learnt how to improve our
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