If you were to hit perfect Drives on every par 4 and par 5 how many shots do you think you’d shave off your handicap? For the vast majority of you it actually wouldn’t result in the improvement you would expect. If you were to study your last few rounds you see that however well or badly you drove the ball most of your shots are lost to handicap from 110 yards in.
GOLFING BY NUMBERS
A low handicapper will rarely take more than three shots to get down from 110 yards or less, in fact they’ll probably get down in 2 far more often than they take 4 shots from that distance. Can you say the same?
While suspect putting actions account for around half of these shots it’s actually the other half where most of the damage occurs - the half when you have a WEDGE in hand. With this club you face the challenge of half and three-quarter swings, ‘knock-downs’, ‘flops’, ‘lobs’, ‘drop and stops’, ‘bump and runs’ and ‘splashes’. Add to this the challenge of a plugged lie in the bunker, a tight fairway or some overhanging branches and it becomes a real point of frustration; because you KNOW that you SHOULD
be hitting the green.
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