Set Up Your Golf Shot: Aim for Middle of Green to Lower Your Scores (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Set Up Your Golf Shot: Aim for Middle of Green to Lower Your Scores (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

Will aiming for middle of green to lower your golf scores? Now golf is often described, that golf isn’t a game of perfection. Golf is actually mainly a game of the narrow misses. Who can make the smallest miss? We very rarely hit that perfect golf shot. We’re all going to make mistakes, but we want to make the fewest number of mistakes, and small mistakes if we can. Now a big part of this is making sure that you don’t try and play the hero shot every time, and you actually aim to give yourself a nice, big margin of error, knowing that golf’s not perfect, we will make some mistakes.

So when you’re aiming at the green, next time you go for a round of golf, every green you aim at, I want you to play to the dead center. Don’t even look where the flag is, look where the middle of the green is. Aim at the dead center of the green. Generally greens are 20 yards wide, 30 yards long. So if you aren’t dead center, the flag can never be more than 15 yards away from you, and that would be pinned right on the edge of the green, which it never is, it’s going to be 5 yards in. So you aim dead center to the middle of the green every time, you’re aiming 10 yards away from the flag, no more than that. That gives you a big enough margin of error there, if you pull the ball, push the ball long or short, you’re going to have a ball still landing on or close to the green. Whereas if you’re aiming towards the flag, that flag, particularly if it’s been hidden in the corner of the green, near a bunker, like green keepers are often prone to doing, it means that you’re margin of error is much, much smaller. Unless you’re a very good player, you are going to make some mistakes; you need to build in a margin of error.

So, maybe if you got, let’s say the next round of golf, play 9 holes, where you go at every single flag, and then play 9 holes where you just go at every single center of the green, and I reckon you’ll score better when you’re aiming at the middle of the green. Particularly when you’re having one of those days where you’re not hitting the ball brilliantly, you need a bigger margin of error. So aim for the middle of the green, give yourself a big enough margin of error, hopefully you will hit the green, even if you didn’t have a great shot, but it often allows a 2 put, and that should get your scores to come down. So, focus on the center of the green, to widen your margin of error, and hopefully that will improve your scores.

 2012-05-23

Will aiming for middle of green to lower your golf scores? Now golf is often described, that golf isn’t a game of perfection. Golf is actually mainly a game of the narrow misses. Who can make the smallest miss? We very rarely hit that perfect golf shot. We’re all going to make mistakes, but we want to make the fewest number of mistakes, and small mistakes if we can. Now a big part of this is making sure that you don’t try and play the hero shot every time, and you actually aim to give yourself a nice, big margin of error, knowing that golf’s not perfect, we will make some mistakes.

So when you’re aiming at the green, next time you go for a round of golf, every green you aim at, I want you to play to the dead center. Don’t even look where the flag is, look where the middle of the green is. Aim at the dead center of the green. Generally greens are 20 yards wide, 30 yards long. So if you aren’t dead center, the flag can never be more than 15 yards away from you, and that would be pinned right on the edge of the green, which it never is, it’s going to be 5 yards in. So you aim dead center to the middle of the green every time, you’re aiming 10 yards away from the flag, no more than that. That gives you a big enough margin of error there, if you pull the ball, push the ball long or short, you’re going to have a ball still landing on or close to the green. Whereas if you’re aiming towards the flag, that flag, particularly if it’s been hidden in the corner of the green, near a bunker, like green keepers are often prone to doing, it means that you’re margin of error is much, much smaller. Unless you’re a very good player, you are going to make some mistakes; you need to build in a margin of error.

So, maybe if you got, let’s say the next round of golf, play 9 holes, where you go at every single flag, and then play 9 holes where you just go at every single center of the green, and I reckon you’ll score better when you’re aiming at the middle of the green. Particularly when you’re having one of those days where you’re not hitting the ball brilliantly, you need a bigger margin of error. So aim for the middle of the green, give yourself a big enough margin of error, hopefully you will hit the green, even if you didn’t have a great shot, but it often allows a 2 put, and that should get your scores to come down. So, focus on the center of the green, to widen your margin of error, and hopefully that will improve your scores.