I recently had the pleasure of playing 18 holes at the magnificent Moortown Golf Club, with Top 50 Coach and PGA Professional Ged Walters… who taught me an invaluable lesson about strategy on the golf course.
I found the middle of the fairway and was ready to attack the pin. I puffed my chest out, grabbed the club from my bag and set off striding towards my golf ball. After all – I had just gained a 106% power boost thanks to winter golf training that had helped me shoot my best ever score.
High Handicappers Must Stop Falling Into This Pin Trap
You only have to look at the latest Shot Scope data to see that the average 20-handicap golfer hits around 14% of greens in regulation, which equates to less than three per round.
I currently play off a handicap index of 20.8 – so it turns out that taking on the pin from 160+ yards would not have been the most sensible strategy in order to build a good score.
However, despite the likelihood of high-handicappers even finding the green from the middle of the fairway being pretty slim, many don’t have a Top 50 Coach in their ear on the golf course and therefore get suckered into taking dead aim.
On most golf courses, greenkeepers will tuck pins behind bunkers, close to hazards or in the proximity of run-off areas in order to provide a little protection to the greens – so an aggressive approach (particular when it’s misguided) can lead to big scores and plenty of frustration.
There is plenty of room out the left side of the green but finding that bunker guarding the pin would be disastrous for many high-handicap golfers
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As I referenced earlier, as evidenced in the image above, Ged and I encountered that exact scenario during our round at…
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