tee it up | BALLANTYNE Bye-Bye Blow-up Holes Lower Your Score Without Changing Your Swing
By Tom Cannarozzo, PGA Class A Teaching Professional, Dana Rader Golf School Photos by Ray Sepesy
"Brad" experiences a blow-up hole when he needs eight strokes to complete a par-four hole.
ELIMINATING THE "BIG NUMBERS" on your scorecard is vital to reducing your handicap and shooting lower scores more consistently. I have three simple solutions that will take care of those blow-up holes without rebuilding your golf swing.
Golf is a game of misses. Plan for them.
Stop playing for the career shot. Just because you hit a six iron 170 yards during your last
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practice session does not mean that is how far you will hit it every time. Learn how far your average shot is and play for that distance. Most golfers never leave room for error — which is why they are often in an impossible predicament, scrambling for a bogey or worse.
Improve the quality of your misses.
If golf is a game of misses, then the extent Tom Cannarozzo BALLANTYNE MAGAZINE 93