A golf coach explains how to lower your score by fixing one specific problem at a time. Track your penalty rate, greens in regulation, scrambling, three-putts, and birdie conversion to find which skill costs you the most shots, then attack that first.
If we're able to say, hey, this one thing, if we clean this up, it's worth 3 shots per round on average. Well, we can go from 3 shots to 2 shots. It's still a problem, still might be the biggest problem, but we're a shot better, right? So it's understanding that a lot of the times the things that we need to do to shoot lower scores are not as hard as we think, but we need to have them more clearly defined so that we can work hard at them for a longer period of time and know, okay, cool, I fixed it. Like, I've gotten past that, I'm on to the next highest priority thing. You know, there's statistics for these. Then you're going to be able to break this down and say, okay, out of all the things that we could improve, what's going to have the biggest impact on their scores? Is it penalty rate off the tee? Is that way too high? Is it greens regulation? Is it scrambling? Is it 3-putts? Is it birdie conversion?
