About Golf

It's fun, it's hard, it can be thrilling or relaxing or even completely maddening. Playing golf and talking about golf consumes hours and hours of people's time the world over. And it's no wonder, either. Golf is addictive and fun and runs the gambit between hilarious and teeth grinding, it all depends on your approach and personality.

So let's talk a bit about making golf more fun. For you type A folks, I'm not sure you're really out to have fun since fun is generally and directly associated with winning, but improving your golf game will certainly make it more fun. And while golf is incredibly difficult to master, otherwise we would all be on the pro tour, that doesn't mean you have to be Tiger to enjoy yourself and be relatively successful.

The best way to improve your overall golf game is start short and then go long. If, although it should certainly be when, you practice, be sure to spend most of your time on the putting practice greens instead of on the driving range.

By working on your putting, chipping and pitching you will be in a far better position to score lower each round than if you spend all your time hammering away with your driver. Even pros only hit roughly 60% of fairways with those big drives, and so you can't ever expect a high percentage of your shots to end up going perfectly straight off the tee.

But if you get to where you can chip within five feet and make more than half of those five foot putts you can probably shave as many as ten or fifteen strokes off your round. The key is working on those five foot putts enough so that you rarely two putt and almost never three putt.

Most shots in golf happen within 100 yards of the pin. You won't, or shouldn't, use your driver or long irons more than 10 times in an entire round. But you will use your putter on every single hole, the less you have to use it, the better your score will be at the end of the day.

So when it comes to getting better at golf, start short and spend most of your time working on your short game. You will have a lot more fun, and yes, you will win an awful lot more often if that sort of thing is important to you.