Master The Golf Short Game
The golf short game is one of the important areas in golf that you need to master. How often do you get your long approach shots to finish on the green? The top pros only hit, on average, 13 greens in regulation. The average golfer only manages to hit 3 greens in regulation!
When you come up short of the green, or miss it completely, it generally means that you have to get up and down to save par. If you don’t master the golf short game then you will be looking at a lot of bogeys or worse per round.
If you remember Seve Ballesteros you will know how important the short game can be. He won many tournaments because of his magic around the greens – he had one of the best short games in golf. It is often said that a low round of golf is not made by a series of many great shots but by the lack of many bad shots.
What this means in the short game is that you have to get the ball on the green and close to the hole. A bad shot from around the green could result in the ball going through the green, hitting it into a sand trap, leaving it in the rough, or landing the ball on the green but having it roll off. Even if you get the ball on the green, but 50 feet from the pin, you are not going to sink many putts from that distance. All of these bad shots are going to cost you a stroke or two at the least.
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