Most high and medium handicappers might not instantly see the difference between the two and state that the best way to improve your score is, well, to just learn to play better, i.e. improve your game. While this is of course true, it is also true that at any given level of proficieny it is possible to extract the best out of your golf game and improve your score by keeping in mind a number of principles and applying certain tricks, which we have set out on the following pages:
Each of the three disciplines, the power game (driving and irons), the approach shots or short game and putting need to be considered separately. Success in golf is largely dependent on your mastering of each skill ‘to the best of your ability’.
To allow you to select immediately the tips you need to reinforce a particular area, we have grouped our tips around the following points:
