Short Game
Short Game
Lets go through a few facts…
The average Tour playing Professional (on the European Tour):
- will shoot on average 71 over the course of a season (given a par 72 course), that’s 1 under par.
If you don’t believe me, go to www.europeantour.com and look for the heading “Stats”.
- Of these 71 shots, a player will use their driver on average 11 to 13 times in a round (given a course that has four par 3’s)
- Of these 71 shots, the average Tour player will have on average 30 putts. (That is 2 ½ times more than the amount of times they use a driver!!!)
- Of these 71 shots, the Tour Player will on average hit 12 greens in regulation out of 18. This means they will miss 6 greens in a round.
NOW
Combine the 6 greens missed in a round (meaning they will be pitching/chipping/ or playing out of a bunker 6 times) with the 30 putts a player has in a round and you will see that the Professional Tour player requires their short game 50% of the time. Now these are stats for the best players in the world!!!
The average golfer out there of any handicap requires the use of their short game considerably more that 50%.
NOW
When you go to “practice” at the driving range, what is the one club you will hit time and time again??? Be honest!!!!…The answer….The Driver….a club you will use approximately 13% of the time in a round of golf.
Now I am not saying that you shouldn’t be practicing your driver, what I am saying is that for every drive you hit at the range, you should be practicing your short game 5 times as much…if you want to improve!!!
