Golf Tips For The Short Game: Secrets You Need To Know

Have you ever watched a tour event in person? If you have it's a lot easier to see why they are so good.

This is because you see they're pre-shot routine, the focus, the preparation, and the execution.

Sometimes you can see this on the golf channel, but it changes from golfers so often you miss it.

It's unbelievable how good of a short game these guys have. It's also equivalent to the amount of practice they put into it.

So be honest with yourself. How often do you practice the short game compared to pounding a driver off the tee? Now be honest with yourself again. How many times do you hit the driver during a normal 18 hole round. Assuming they all go stay in bounds 14. Maybe more depending on if the stakes are out of bounds or hazards. But most likely, not more the 20. Now how many chip shots, pitch shots, and putts do you take a round.

It's more than 20 right? So what will be better, spending hours trying to get your 20 drives down to 14, assuming you even take 20 drives, which will save 6 strokes. Or lets say you take two pitch/chip shots and 2 putts a hole. That is 54 strokes right there. Now let's say we knock the two pitch/chip shots down to only one per hole. Thats only 36 strokes. A total of 18 strokes to be shaved. More than three times by practicing with your driver!

But how hard can it be to hit a ten yard chip shot and get it to stop close to the pin? That's what we think, which is why we don't practice it as often. However, Dave Pelz found that the player that earns the most on the PGA Tour is not the one with the best driving accuracy, putting, approach, or ball striking. It is the player with the best short game.

This is why all the pros spend 80% of their practice time practicing their: bunker shots, pitch shots, chip shots, and putting.

Because it is the most important part of the game.

But how do you practice the short game?

It's simple, you don't line up next to the practice green and start chipping hundreds of balls. Remember, quality of quantity.

You can practice for 15 minutes and have it more effective than practicing for 5 hours.

What you do is pick a different hole to chip to every time, and go through your routine as if you were playing. If you can do that while practicing, you will have problem doing it on the course.

Why?

Because you already practiced like you were playing, so the entire time you were practicing, your mind was reading it like you were playing!

Do You Want To....

Instantly slash 7-12 strokes off of your golf game?

Get 3 times more accuracy in your chip shots?

Gain a silky smooth putting stroke that's comparable to Tiger Woods?

Get your distance control to an exact science?

Start making twice as many putts with less effort?

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