Top Golf Tips By The Golf Mentor

Chipping

Many golf chipping tips have a common theme of minimising the risk. Where possible, use the club which allows your ball to land on the green about three foot from the edge of the green and then run up to the hole. This way you are using the least amount of force needed to get it to the hole. This is much safer because if you make a mistake with the chip shot, there damage is far less than if you are using more force. For example, suppose you are just off the green and the hole is 30 feet away. You could using a lob wedge and hit it hard enough to carry 27 feet, landing in front of the hole. If you hit this shot badly, you could end up off the green and in the deep rough or bunker. Alternatively, you could use a pitching wedge and hit it to land a few feet from the edge of the green, so it rolls up to the hole. If you make a mistake with the pitching wedge, you are likely to still be on the green.

Enjoying Golf

There is an old saying, "horses for courses". This applies not only to the race track but to the golf course. If you are learning to play golf, you should select a course that matches your current capabilities. For example, if you are only just starting out, a par 3 course (one that only has short par 3 holes) can be great fun. Such courses allow you to improve your swing, chipping, pitching and putting, but do so in an environment that allows you to experience the true joy of golf. At the same time you can go to the driving range to learn how to use a Driver.

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To give an analogy, an average tennis player would not want to play the world champion every time they play. They would lose 6-0 every time and learn nothing. Instead they like to play against evenly matched opponents. It is the same in golf, playing on a very hard golf course is dispiriting and you learn little from it. Instead you should play on a course that matches your abilities. This doesn't mean that you should not play the occasional game on a championship course, just that the place you play regularly should be one where you can enjoy the game. As you improve, you can change to a more difficult course.