5 Ways A Playing Lesson Can Help Lower Your Scores Without Changing Your Swing

I’ve always been slightly intrigued by the concept of lowering my scores without touching my swing. And it’s not because I think that my swing is perfect, it’s because I know a lot of my golf is going on in my head.

I’m really into the book The Four Foundations of Golf, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect. I listen to mindset apps like Golf Guru and all of their strategies don’t involve touching your swing. But it does and should help you to lower your scores and the key thing behind these things is course management strategy, mindset and damage limitation.

For a mere amateur like me who’s trying to cut their handicap. What would it look like to play with a golfing pro and to get some top tips on how to lower my score? We’re not talking about generic advice. We’re talking about someone who’s watching me up close and firsthand.

Now what I will say about the day I went out with the pro, I had a complete meltdown. We’re talking a walk only for a couple of holes. Lately, my golf has just been so on the down that I’ve felt quite discouraged by it and I guess I was a bit embarrassed that we’d gone out to do this and I was playing so badly!

I know these things happen in the game, but it seems to happen a bit too regularly, I’m trying to just enjoy it, but I do find it hard to relax when things are going so far away from my plans. Which I exactly why I needed to do this!