How to best combine your drives and putts
November 2nd 2006 18:53
Once again, Mark Harman from the US Golf Teacher's Federation gives us his take on how best to approach your whole game,and how that can benefit your average round score in bringing it down to a handi-cap you can work on. a lot of don't work on each part of our game so it benefits it as a whole. Yes,you may have to concentrate on problem areas such as your putting,but don't neglect your mid-range shots like chips and yes your drives. Keeping all this in mind and actual putting it into practice will benefit your game like you would not believe.
MG:Are your putting skills more important than driving ability?
MH: There is great debate about this, but I'll throw my vote in for driving
ability.For most people, a bad drive means, on average, one more stroke to reach the green.Sure, you can make up the stroke by one-putting, but
that's easier said than done. Also, studies show that ball striking is more
important for average score than putting.
MG:If your driving has always been mediocore,should you concentrate
more on controlling the flight-path of the ball,so your chips and putts are done from a better position?
MH: Yes,this makes sense. A bad drive makes the second shot more
difficult,and a bad second shot makes the third shot more difficult,etc.
MG
n the other hand,if you having strong driving skills can that make up for lousy putting and chipping--or would you be fooling yourself
thinking you can have one without the other?
MH: To score our best, we must have everything working.Although I believe driving ability is more important for most people than putting skill,if our putting and chipping are lousy we will not make our best scores.Our overall driving ability tends to give us an overall scoring range while our putting and short game tend to tell us what we'll score within that range.
Mark Grove--a1golftips blog
Mark Harman--GolfTeacher -USGTF
www.usgtf.com
This is the link to the US Golf Teacher's Federation.
MG:Are your putting skills more important than driving ability?
MH: There is great debate about this, but I'll throw my vote in for driving
ability.For most people, a bad drive means, on average, one more stroke to reach the green.Sure, you can make up the stroke by one-putting, but
that's easier said than done. Also, studies show that ball striking is more
important for average score than putting.
MG:If your driving has always been mediocore,should you concentrate
more on controlling the flight-path of the ball,so your chips and putts are done from a better position?
MH: Yes,this makes sense. A bad drive makes the second shot more
difficult,and a bad second shot makes the third shot more difficult,etc.
MG
n the other hand,if you having strong driving skills can that make up for lousy putting and chipping--or would you be fooling yourselfthinking you can have one without the other?
MH: To score our best, we must have everything working.Although I believe driving ability is more important for most people than putting skill,if our putting and chipping are lousy we will not make our best scores.Our overall driving ability tends to give us an overall scoring range while our putting and short game tend to tell us what we'll score within that range.
Mark Grove--a1golftips blog
Mark Harman--GolfTeacher -USGTF
www.usgtf.com
This is the link to the US Golf Teacher's Federation.
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