Golf Is A Game of Misses

 One of my junior golfers had her first big tournament yesterday. She was great. Her dad reported back that she had some great shots and some not great shots. Mind you, she is eleven and already had a basketball game, a golf lesson, and was teeing it up at 4pm on a cold, wet day. ANYONE would have seen a mix of good and bad shots under those conditions.

Often, we are looking for a GUARANTEE that the bad stuff won't happen, but that is out of our control.

What's next then? We can make the bad stuff better by raising the floor. We work on the places where we tend to struggle so that the bad gets better. 

For example, if you tend to lose your tee shot both left and right, we work on eliminating one of those shots.  Which one makes you want to crawl into a hole when you hit it?  For me, it's a shot blocked immediately to the right.  So I work on hitting the golf ball left, so that I rarely miss a shot right. That allows me to have an idea of where my golf ball will go most of the time.

Where can you save strokes?  Most of my students can save lots of strokes on the putting green.  Three and four putts accumulate quickly.  We raise the floor by eliminating extra putts through better speed.

As our misses get better, our scores get better. As we raise the floor, our lows aren't so low.

Many Birdies,

Melissa