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The Best Golf Playing Tip Ever!

By Alex Fortey

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Arguably the best golf course tip ever!!!

This is a hard accolade to award for sure, seeing as everyone has the "secret tip" that will turn you from a weekend mid 80's into a club champion, or a regional champion into a national tour player. Although there are too many to mention, there is one that has always sprung to mind whenever I am questioned, what is the best tip?

As far as golf swing tips go there are some I will provide at another time, same goes for golf fitness tips or on-course nutrition. What I am referring to today is on-course thought patterns and habits that will enhance your focus, lower your scores and give you the edge against your rivals.

I played a good round today;

I hit 12 fairways and 15 greens for a 67, would have been better but I missed a couple of birdie opportunities and I hit one bad shot that cost me a double bogey!! I hit some sweet drives, one being on a 500 + yard par 5 that left me a mid wedge into the green. So I was following my usual routine, it is when we go off the rails slightly that we need the extra help.

You see I had to pass this greatest golf playing tip onto a French colleauge. He was swinging well, especially as over the the last few weeks we have been working on his range of motion, his flexibility for golf and agility in the golf swing. But he was still rushing a few shots and some went into the trees or missed the green, and he was getting frustrated and missing more shots... He needed a different focus.

Before I reveal what I said to him, here are some other tips that I advocate;

Picking the smallest target you can see on every shot especially drives off the tee (I use this every time).

Under pressure situations, ensure complete full shoulder turns to complete the backswing to reduce the risk of a short snappy golf swing that "comes over the top".

Always focus on being pin high.
With any approach shot, pay less attention to lie of the green, direction of your shot, putting it close etc. If you are consistently pin high, you will never be in too bad of shape.

My favourite though comes from Sergio Garcia multi-time PGA tour winner, Ryder Cup Star and winner of the 1997 British Boys Championship. The reason I mention the under 18 championship is because he was up against a great friend of mine Richard Jones in the final. Now unfortunately, as Richard will attest, Sergio was just too good, he possessed an athletic golf swing, physical strength, and seemingly back then a putting skill that he seems to have forgotten recently - due to overuse and micro tears in muscle because of his style of swing and mechanics.

However, Sergio taught my friend one great lesson and the tip that has stayed with us for all these years.

All you need is one good golf shot per hole.

That's it.

Think about it, we are on a 427 yard par 4, let's say you push your drive right, it does not matter if the next shot you play is an amazing curved sliding fade out the rough to make it onto the green.

One good shot per hole...

Maybe not, maybe you can only advance it 60 yards up, the next iron shot from 160 yards is a crisply struck shot to to 4 feet. Par save. Perhaps you hit that iron shot a little pushed again, putting you 30 feet from the hole, but you make that putt because that was your one good shot this hole.

One good shot per hole...

Likewise, after a half decent tee shot - maybe mistimed and bit out the toe of the driver, but just off the fairway - you might misjudge the wind and your iron approach shot sails into a sand trap, but who is to say you cannot put that bunker shot right into the hole?!?

One good shot per hole...

Get the idea? It shows that you can forget about the previous shot every time, and try your best to make the next one, a well thought out and executed golf shot, be a second, third or fourth shot on the hole.

This has been a focus and thought process for me ever since, and it worked wonders for my colleauge who shot 4 below his handicap of 9.

Try it yourself, you just might like it.

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