How to reduce your handicap – Part 2

Reducing handicaps not only involves how to take constant practice, concentration and the usage of right golf clubs. But a little bit of self awareness on your part and concentrating on your self awareness and improvement will do more than setting right external factors!

Here, we will look into how self-improvement can be achieved and how it can help you reduce your handicap. After all, self improvement means by itself to reduce your handicap. They both are inter-related nevertheless. Improving yourself in terms of focus and analyzing your mistakes will make you a low-handicap golfer.

Spot your weak areas

Learn which ones are your weak areas and understand if you are weak in teeing off, driving, approaching, chipping or putting. Just ask yourself which kind of club suits you for which kind of shots. Practice different clubs for different shots at the driving range and just get to learn which clubs are the easiest to use and which ones give you the maximum distance, in addition to helping you square the ball.

Do not try to experiment in your weak areas until you become a proficient golfer or until you learn to reduce your handicaps. This will cost you the most number of shots. Ensure that in the course, your only job is to play and not learn.

Introspection of yourself will help you to understand where you are good and where you are not and also will help you learn which club suits you and which one not.

Use the Driving range to the maximum

The driving range has to be utilized the maximum before you take the course. Experimenting on golf course will pile your score upwards and will lead you to a higher handicap. Almost all the golf courses have the driving range and if not, join one where there is a driving range.

They can be utilized by paying a nominal fee ranging a very few dollars, almost in one digit. Practice more and more on the driving range with your very own experiments to make yourself better.

Feel the handicap

You must feel it or see for yourself where you have improved. This is the reverse process of where you need improvement. If you are able to drive better than before, or putt it into the hole swifter than before will count by telling yourself that you have improved a great deal and that improvement is possible. You will start to work more on your weak areas once you see the improvement for yourself.