Hit More Fairways Using This Simple Trick

In this lesson, I’m going to show you one simple strategy to improve your golf drive.

It’s important to have a strategy for playing off the tee. There’s a fair amount of danger on this hole. As I mentioned, there’s a good deal of out-of-bounds along the right of the fairway.

The very first step is to use the course guide to identify where the majority of the trouble is. I’ve played this hole a few times and I know that the majority of the trouble is all the way up the right-hand side, the out-of-bounds areas, which also leads into some thick bush. If I go there I’m more than likely to lose my ball.

Looking at the course guide I can see that up the left-hand side of the fairway, it opens up quite significantly, all the way up to the target. Knowing this, I can now decide which side of the tee-box to line up on.

On this tee, I have three possible tee-box positions to choose from. Selecting which position to tee off from is crucial as these completely change the angle at which I’ll be driving the ball.

If I tee up the ball on the right-hand side of the tee-box, that is going to encourage me to aim up the left-hand side of the hole. If I tee up into the centre then I be I’ll be aiming more towards the centre, and if I was over on the left-hand side, all things considered equal, that would encourage me to hit it out to the right-hand side of the hole.

So, knowing that I want to aim for the left-hand side of the fairway, on this particular hole, I can begin to shift my line to tee up on the right-hand side of the tee-box. I will now open up the hole, minimising the possibility that I’ll hit it in the worst possible spot, which is down the right-hand side.

What I generally see with the average recreational golfer is that they’ll tee their ball up in the centre of the box, then they would aim up the centre of the fairway, with no real regard for where the dangers were.

 With this one simple strategy, of picking your tee-box position, you’ll hopefully find yourself hitting far more fairways as a result, and lowering your golf score.

Summary:

1. Study the hole by looking at the course guide.
2. Identify where the dangers lie, which parts of the hole you need to avoid, and where you want to aim for.
3. Decide which side of the tee box to drive off accordingly:

1. Teeing up on the left-hand side of the tee-box encourages you to hit right,
2. Teeing up on the right-hand side of the tee-box encourages you to hit left, and
3. Teeing up on the centre of the tee-box encourages you to hit up the middle of the fairway.

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