The short game (short irons and putting) accounts for most of your time on the golf course. That’s why going to the driving range is only going to help so much. Guys out there like to practice having the biggest, longest drive off the tee, but their score may be suffering due to the fact they don’t practice their short game as much. Sure having a great drive is sexy, and it can lower your score, but with a bad short game, those guys who spend all day at the driving range with their new, flavor of the month drivers who don’t have a short game worth talking about are going to have higher scores than someone with a moderate drive and a good short game.
So, the number one rule for improving your short game is practice. Try to find a driving range that has a chipping green with bunkers. Not all of them have this, especially the ones you see on the side of the highway while going to work. Also, make sure the range has clear yardage markers from 50 to 100 yards. Some ranges only start posting yardage at 200.
The second rule is to know your clubs. That doesn’t mean going out and buying the brand new clubs as advertised in Golf Digest, nor does it mean being able to talk about the graphite shaft’s particle density or the whether the club has titanium plating. Know YOUR clubs. Know how the clubs you have right now in your bag handle for you.
For example, how many yards does your nine-iron shot go? What about a five-iron? When practicing to improve your short game what you’re going for is not the same thing as on the driving range, where most golfers just want to see how far they can hit the ball with their big drivers.
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