Improving Golf Shots: A Different Approach

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Improving our "best" #golf shots, E.g; 🟢hitting 20 yards longer 🟢straightening a big curvature 🟢adding more compression 🟢adding ability to stop the ball quicker is definitely a route to lower scores However, this thread 🧵will take a look at an alternative approach 👇👇👇

Most golfers will shoot significantly better if they reduced their worst shots. E.g. ❌shanks ❌2+ inch fat shots ❌drives more than 30 yards offline ❌irons more than 20 yards offline Even if your "best" shots stayed the same, having fewer of the above will lower your handicap

When I coach, I look at the 10+ shot RANGEs that a player is within E.g. with ground contact, imagine players contact the ground constantly within the red/yellow or white area. All 3 of these players are as consistent as one another. All 3 can hit good shots.

However, the white player will hit fewer bad shots that miss the green Or imagine 2 players playing a par 3 ten times👇 Both players have the same consistency level (dispersion) Both also hit the same number of "good" shots close to the pin But one player hits fewer bad shots

Or take this example. Both players hit the same number of super-sweet strikes. But one player has a larger number of shanks. Both as as consistent as one another. the difference is maybe 1/4 of an inch

Two of the key skills to lowering the number of bad shots are 1. identifying when your pattern is shifting into a bad range 2. being able to quickly and accurately recalibrate it back to good ranges Here are a couple of examples of how I do that using rules 👇👇👇

If my strikes are within the green area, I change nothing However, if they go into the yellow area, I start to make mental note. If it happens again, I'm doing something conscious to re-center the next If it enters the red area just once, I am doing something to re-balance it

To the above, I see way too many times where amateurs slowly creep into the red zones and aren't even aware of it. They don't catch it in time, and a bad stretch of holes, weeks or even months can occur.

Similarly for ground contact, if my strike is in the white area, I leave it. A yellow strike will raise alarms. 2 of those in a row and I'm re-centering the next one. A red strike results in an immediate re-centering thought for the next shot

Your tolerances may be different depending on your level, but the idea remains the same. 🟢have high awareness of what you're doing 🟢think in terms of patterns, not individual shots 🟢have the ability to quickly re-center/calibrate patterns when they shift into bad ranges

If you want to learn more about improving ✅ awareness ✅ drills/tools/feels to change patterns ✅ ability to re-calibrate precisely Check out my game improvement programs here in this previous tweet 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇twitter.com/adamyounggolf/status/1691140268819701760?s=20