5 Stupid mistakes that will RUIN Your Golf | But are easy to Fix

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In this video i've got five mistakes steven mistakes actually that we all make from time to time that is costing you shots during a round of golf get rid of them and they will save you so many shots across the season so the first mistake i see golfers make is unable to transfer your range golf to the course or another way of looking at this is unable to transfer maybe a swing change or something you've done in a lesson to the course the reason being is what you're doing is the first mistake you are taking way too many swing thoughts out onto the gods and over the ball the way to integrate a swing change what you've got to do instead is this you don't have a million swing thoughts over the ball you need to stay engaged with your target engage with your target basic means you need to be focusing on where you're going as a poster focusing on what you're doing okay does that make sense so let's give you an example in one of my videos a student asked me how do i make a bigger turn so i gave him a simple exercise which was imagine someone's called out your name behind you turn and have a look and that will help you make a better turn but if you think about that over the golf ball that's not going to be very very good when when you're playing a shot right you're disengaging with the target and you're focusing too much on your swing instead do this put this into a routine something like this so if i'm going to take a practice swing what i do is i need to make a bigger turn i'm going to turn another look over my trail shoulder here teach my body what that feels like maybe do one more movement feeling what that's like then what i'm going to do is i'm going to re-engage with the target again now i've taken that feeling i then have to trust it's going to happen it won't be perfect i get myself set and i hit away okay you'll see some of the best players doing this time and time again justin thomas for instance sets up over the golf ball makes a few little moves away then he goes back to normal re-engages with his target you know he's working on the takeaway but he doesn't overthink it so first mistake stop taking too many swing thoughts out onto that golf course okay so mistake number two this will save you a lot of shots so adjust for the lie so when you're playing golf you're going to play on different lies the ball sometimes going to be above your feet it's going to be below your feet sometimes sometimes you're going to play like this sometimes you're going to play like this and you're going to become aware of the slope that you're playing on so let me show you a real simple way of learning the feel of this or just developing a real sense of what you got to do so when the ball is above your feet like it is at the moment just simply go down the grip maybe half an inch right just so the club comes a bit shorter if the ball is below your feet widen your stance a little bit so you can get lower to it these are subtle things you can do to adjust to the slope if the ball is above your feet so you're literally on a slope like this make sure that your spine becomes perpendicular to the slope so don't sit up normally like this simply if this is a slope here and it's backwards your spine goes with it so you end up leaning backwards so a little bit more weight favors the back foot than the front foot okay that's you now adjusting to the slope that's going to really help you strike it what you could do in swing by the way is when i'm on an uphill lie just imagine swinging to a high finish okay so you go from a position here swing to a nice high finish when the ball is in a sense above your feet like this or going downhill what you want to do is do the opposite get your spine look going this way so now you're going to go into a lower finish so use that as a guide so when the balls in a sense on a downhill light simply finish lower and i would imagine finishing where my hands don't go past my shoulder height these small adjustments can really save you some shots so pay attention to the slope that you're on the ball the butt is above my stance here when the ball's above my stance it's going to work for me it's going to want to curve this way naturally so ball curves from right to left on uphill and when it's below me it wants to curve from left to right i also take that into consideration so i'm going to aim here right edge of the green and let the ball curve in

just like that mistake number three and this is a real biggie not practicing the shots that you have a lot of an example would be look if you find yourself sometimes short of the green by 30 yards on a regular basis how often do you actually practice that particular shot yeah my students might come up short of the green and they wonder why they're losing shots when they're thinning over the back of the green they just don't practice this shot or you might find you're starting out you're in the trees more than you would like to be and you don't know how to play the low shot under the branches so again learn how to play that low shot under the branches be quiet because it could save you one or two shots you might find your golf course that you have deep rough on the edges of the greens how often do you practice shots off good lies when actually it should be practicing shots from deep rough because that's the shot you have a lot of so start to practice getting good at the shots that you have a lot of and the one way you can do this is i want you now to do an audit of your round of golf and pick two or three shots that you do have a lot of schedule some time in your diary to actually go and practice them this is a good example here some of my students might come up short the green and they have this particular shot here and they fat it off in it a few times and they keep doing the same thing why because they don't spend time so 30 yard shot here i'm going to land it short the green nice and simple

just like that mistake number four missing too many of these short putts you and i both know if you can hold more of these during a round of golf you will lower your scores so how do you do that well look the biggest thing i see when people are hitting these short putts here is they stood over the golf ball and just as they're about to hit the strike the ball they take a little peep i know you do this sometimes you stood over that ball here and just as you're about to strike your eyes start wandering towards the hole what that does is it moves your shoulders offline it moves your head offline that's going to affect the path of your putter and you're going to miss a lot more of these parts the second thing is a poor rhythm you know woman you're jabbing at next meet you're decelerating so how do you go about improving all this set yourself up a little system and a routine so you have some consistency in your approach inconsistency in your approach leads to inconsistent patting so simple exercise stand over the golf ball here and i call it my one two three exercise where you look at the hole and you're visualizing the ball going into the hole when you move your head back we're going to call that two and when you get to the head when your head goes back we're going to pull the trigger back and go three so it looks something like this one two three notice the rhythm one two three find that rhythm time and time again and you will start to hold more parts one two three now there's a big difference by the way in this one two hover around for a little bit take another look if this becomes inconsistent you will miss more of these short putts so mistake number four simply learn to hold more of these parts develop a system and a routine that makes you do that have a routine which is rhythmical and you'll have more flow to your putting stroke too hope that helps tip number five how many shots do you think you could save in a round of golf if you were more confident well to become confident you've got to put some really good habits into your game and one of the ones you can do so simple after a round of golf like this simply start to focus on some of the great things in your rental golf what was the best shot you hit because i don't know you but how often do you actually playing pandas well if i hadn't hit that dodgy shot there i would have shot x or god they were so slow today with such a slow round of golf all this is breeding negativity and is storing bad memories which over time stacked on top of each other week after week will really spoil your confidence when you start to focus on some of the good things stacked on top of each other that will build your confidence over a period of time now the second thing is we've got to be realist you still want to get better don't you so if there's one thing that you could get better at today after your round of golf write it down in your phone and then come up with a little strategy okay your short game was you're struggling with no problem get in your phone and think right on thursday or whatever i'm going to play it practice for 30 minutes or i'm going to go and watch one of danny moore's videos on youtube which by by the way you can watch a nice little short game video right here simple simple stuff that you can do to breed some confidence into your game so really hope you enjoyed these mistakes if you did give it a thumbs up maybe share it with one of your friends and of course look if you're new to the channel press that little button up there and come and subscribe so i can see you next time but until next week have a great golfing week