If you are hitting the ball well but not scoring as well as you want, chances are you could use some on-course practice to sharpen your scoring skills. In the video below, PGA Professional Jack Backhouse plays 3 holes of the worst ball to show you how it could help your game.
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On Course Scoring Drills Worst Ball Challenge
The rules of Worst Ball are pretty simple: It’s a scramble in which you play 2 shots, and then instead of picking the best one to play from, you pick the worst one to go and play from. This makes the game much more difficult than it is regularly.
For example, if you hit 2 tee shots from the first tee, you would pick up the ball that found the fairway and then go play 2 shots from the trees, then play the worst ball of those 2 shots and go play 2 more from there, picking the worst results all the way down until you make 2 consecutive putts in a row.
The aim of the game is to try and improve your bad shots, or try to hit your bad shots into better places. Golfers of all abilities are able to hit good shots close, but the difference between the best players and the worst is the quality of their worst shots.
As a golfer if you can learn to hit your bad shots into places where you can make bogey instead of double bogey, you start to drastically improve your scores.
On Course Drills
A lot of golfers do not see the golf course as a place to go and improve, but this is a HUGE mistake. Ultimately the goal of any lesson or tip or swing change is to improve our scoring on the course, so it is a great idea to go practice on the field that we play on.
Trying to work some on course drills into your monthly practice schedule will massively improve your scrambling, short game, touch around the greens and ability to hit fairways off the tee. I think amateur golfers would be surprised just how much time tour players or low handicappers spend on the course rather than he driving range.
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Give these tips a try and let us know how you get on! If you want to keep up to date with Jack’s instruction you can subscribe to his YouTube Channel here, or keep watching our instruction page!
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