What three things can I do to improve my golf scores without changing my golf swing? Well, there’s lots that you can do to improve your golf and your golf scores that you’re achieving out on the golf course without actually making any technical changes to your swing. Technique is important in golf but it’s also one element of it, and there is a lot more involved to scoring well than just technique. So the first thing I suggest you do is rather improving your technique is go to the putting green and start to work on taking less putts. If you take less putts when you are out on the course, this will dramatically reduce your golf score, because it really does influence the score and it’s something that you can see an improvement in your golf score and a lowering of your golf score immediately if you take in less putts.
So go the – go to the green, work on improving your distance putting, so that you are getting the ball to within one putt a length and then work on improving those short putts, so that once the ball is within a putt a length, you know that you can hold that putt.
The second thing I’d do to improve your golf scores without improving your technique is to make sure that you know your yardages. If you know how far you hit each club, it’s going to make it a lot easier to actually get the ball closer to the target when you know the distance that’s left. So before you go on to the golf course go to the range, hit about half a dozen shots with each of your golf clubs, and then note that down so you can take that information out on to the course with you. I’d then advice you to take a GPS device, either a range finder or some sort of GPS device where you can then know the yardage from the ball to the green and then you can just look at the information you wrote down at the range and select the correct club. And that’s going to help you to score a lot better because you won’t be misclubbing and having to play extra shots, you’ll just be playing one shot in to the green.
The final thing I would say to improve without improving your technique if you wanted to lower your scores is to work on aiming the club, much, much more accurately. So rather than walking up to the ball and simply hitting the shot without aiming make sure you’ve aimed and you’ve actually looked at where you want to hit to before you play the shot. Stand behind the ball, look at where you want the ball to go, pick a specific target to hit to, and then draw a line from that in your mind’s eye back to the ball.
Pick something out about one to two feet in front of the ball and now just concentrate on aiming the club face correctly at that spot that you’ve picked out. Once you feel that the face is aimed correctly at the spot you have picked out, set your feet so that they are in line with the club face, and with the grooves on the club, and then take your stance up. Now you are aimed correctly, just one look at the target, and then swing the golf club. And you’ll start to find that you hit your shots much more accurately because you’ve aimed correctly and your score is lower when you are out on the course. So those three great tips, if you want to get lower scores without having to improve your technique.