Is it Possible to Play Better Golf With No Practice?
I, like most golfers, am always looking to play better, beat my mates and get bragging rights. I have a lifestyle that is pretty hectic and spend a lot of time with my family. I have two boys and we are a soccer mad family. I coach one of my boys teams and my other son plays twice a week as well. So you can see I don't get any time to perfect my golf at all.
Recently I have been managing about a game every 4 weeks and absolutely no practice, so I have been in search of a way to help me enjoy my game with no practice, so I researched and investigated and came up with 2 things that I could do with out too much bother.
- Course management
- Pitching and Chipping strategy
So my simple course management technique was really to avoid the bunkers at all costs and give myself a chance of an up and down from a green side chip.
Unless you can hit the ball from where you are onto the green at least 7 times out of 10 then you would be better off playing short.
Pitching and Chipping Strategy
I read the following tip recently
"You can vary the distance of your chips by using different clubs - try using your 5 iron, 7 iron or 9 iron and only ONE swing instead of using your sand wedge and 3 different swings."
Basically, the secret is to have the same length backswing, but use a different club to ship the ball either longer or shorter, and I adapted it to have two swings.
Well that made sense to me so before my round started, I thought I would do a little scientific research, so I went to the practice area and played chips with 2 different swings
Swing #1 Take the club back about 18 inches behind my back foot. The key is to go back the same distance every time
swing #2 Takes the club back parallel to the groundI spent 15 minutes testing out how far the ball went with each club using swing number 1 from my 5 iron up to my lob wedge to get a feel for the distance covered in the air and the total distance I then repeated the exercise using swing number 2 I also used a simple setup routine for chipping and putting (you can get this set up routine from my website TheGolfHelper.com
Now I didn't change any other part of my game, and just applying these simple methods improved my game without any practice (well actually about 15 minutes practice on the chipping range!)
As I said before these 2 things were the key to me winning our club A grade competition, and all done with 2 very simple techniques that anyone can do without remodeling your swing or taking a lesson, so that should give you some food for thought!
If you want to discover the simple set up routine that I used, simply go to my web site and See my review of The Simple Golf Swing Review
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