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Simple Golf Swing Tips For Better Approach Shots
Here are some simple golf swing tips to improving your approach shots and lowering your score in the process.
Let’s face it, everyone that's a beginner to intermediate golfer would love to hit more greens in regulation and actually stick when they hit in order to put for more realistic and make-able birdies and pars more often. Even better, making some serious ball marks on a green would indicate you’ve got pretty good control of your approach shot.
The classic mistakes, if you will, with approach shots are the "go for it" mentality with respect to pin placement and an incorrect reading of the green in terms of its slope and run. If you miss your intended target, you’re likely off the green and in trouble.
There are two really easy ways to improve your approach game.
First, start aiming for the center of the green and forget about the flag placement. If you miss with the going for the flag approach, you're likely going to roll of the green or land in a sand trap and have a whole new set of problems to deal with.
Second, start getting better alignment of the golf shot and forget about distance all together. Once you start hitting the ball in the direction you want, the distance part will be easier to correct. But better alignment takes practice and most golfers don't want to use practice range time or balls on alignment improvement. Yet, if you go back in your head and review a recent round, I'll bet you will discover that distance on approach was not typically that far off if you had a good golf swing on approach. The problem lies in where you end up which has more to do with golf swing alignment than distance.
When you shoot for the center of the green, if you’re a little long or a little short of target, you're likely still going to be putting if the golf shot was on target. But when you're set up is not aligned with the target, being a little off is likely going to involve a lot more yardage as well as more potential obstacles.
If you're pushing or pulling the ball consistently, it can be near impossible to achieve any type of decent score as you have no way to know where the ball is going other that pure guess work. The best way to get rid of a bad golf swing and start hitting greens is to start practicing your alignment and golf set up.
Once your set up is parallel to your target line, a simple golf swing is going to land your approach shot into a manageable lie most of the time.
If you're serouis about improving your approach shot, check out the simple golf swing for both fast and score dropping results.
