How to Break 80 with 3 Simple Keys

last week i was out playing and through 16 holes i had no bogeys three under 17th hole bogeyed oh it's disastrous but it got me to thinking back to when i was trying to break 80 for that first time same feelings were happening so whether you're trying to break 80 for the first time 90 100 par it doesn't matter but when i broke 80 for the first time i really focused on three things and that got me over the hump for that first time and it will work for you too whatever level you're trying to get to every time i lose my balance i just pick up my t real fast so no one notices now if you're a 10 handicap and you're trying to shoot even par and win everybody's money this is not for you okay this is for people who actually want to get better and improve and enjoy that piece of the game what i noticed early on was this that on tougher holes longer holes like this one were on here i was always bombing driver because i wanted the shortest possible shot into the hole what i realized though was i spent a lot of time in the trees and in the bunkers and in trouble so find the fairway because it's a lot easier to get that ball close to the green where you can chip where i spend a lot of time chipping doing my chipping drills it's a lot easier to get it close to the green if you're in the fairway then if you're in the bunker or the trees so first key was don't always just bomb driver off the tee notice i hit three wood back there found the fairway short of trouble because driver would put me smack dab if i don't hit it perfect in a skinny little fairway so that leaves a six iron in that's fine would i like a wedge in of course but not from the bunker i don't want to be in that thing or the trees or whatever but that wasn't enough i needed more i was getting close but i was getting 80 82 83 84 and i'd be right there par on the last hole you got it and triple bogey you been there the second thing i was doing was that if i knew i wasn't going to break 80 or my number whatever it happened to be then i kind of gave up on the round and i realized there was a major problem with that is this in order to get my lowest round break that barrier i had to put myself in a pressure situation more often because if i was in that pressure situation and i didn't achieve success i gave up so in order to put pressure on myself even in those rounds where it was over and i had no chance of breaking 80 this is what i would do whatever the shot was i would tell myself all right 18th hole just pretend 18th hole you've got to get up and down to break 80. so that i would put myself in the pressure situations over and over and over again every shot i had not horrible but now now i have a pressure six foot putt everybody wants that magical swing fix so they can shoot their lowest round but that's not it it's putting pressure on your game because that magnifies your mistakes and the more you do that the more you can deal with it and overcome that so again like i said i had to get up and down to break 80. here's my putt at it and i'm feeling the pressure went in hit a little bump too got lucky you got to chalk up those little victories along the way which got me closer but i was still missing one key fundamental thing once i got it game changer and if you're enjoying this video make sure you hit that like button also subscribe to the channel and hit the bell notification so you don't miss any videos that come out that's if you really want to lower your scores all the way so here's the final thing that took me over the hump got me out there i realized i needed to have a different goal besides just breaking whatever number it was 80 for me at that time so what i would do was i would take my scorecard and i would circle the holes where i wanted to make verti now i wanted to be realistic here i could circle eight holes but i'm not probably not gonna make eight birdies in a round i probably gonna make two maybe three if i'm lucky that's a good day back then even now like that scratch golfer two three birdies around maybe so be selective here and pick two holes that you are going to focus in and make a birdie for me that's this short par 5 the 16th hole put a circle around everything so on your scorecard you know this is the hole where expectations are high so i'm gonna take you through my mindset as i play one of those circle holes because this whole journey is what got me over the top first thought t-box tempo just good tempo when i'm striking my driver that's all i'm focused on here 237 left now just because you pick this as your birdie hole doesn't mean you get to go for the fences here's what we have to do we have to be a little bit of a poker player in this scenario what are the odds i'm gonna hit it on the green you should know that based on your practice three high cutting i have to take a little off it probably not going to go on the green five wood could go potentially yes now i got to calculate the risk what is a bad shot with this equal for me i could top it in the bunker i could put it in the trees over there i could go left i do not want to go left on this whole uphill lie easy to go left so 50 50 on this i could lay up here and put all the pressure on my wedge game do you practice your 80 yarders enough to have full confidence in those probably not right because you're probably there but if you do that's a good option so four iron put me right there on the front of the green right up front pins in the back so okay how's your chipping game is it good no good you gotta know that based on your practice so i'm gonna go five wood five wood easier to hit than the three i'm pretty comfortable confident with it my misses aren't that big and there's a very critical piece to this that's vital if you're going to get it right so that you can have success first let's see if i can make that eagle putt we did it a little ridge go up so we're in good position for the hole i picked to birdie just to put this and we got it got a little chicken on the bone that's good good for the nerves snuck it in that critical piece of information is this make sure you pick your birdie one on the front one on the back and start picking out three pars on the front and three pars on the back that's eight of the holes that you're really gonna focus in on because your goal isn't necessarily to break your number or 80 whatever it is it's to refocus on every hole we got to get shot by shot whole by all not overall score so do it like that and you'll be like oh i shot a 78 today that's what happened to me torrey pines north course 78 broke it by two because i wasn't thinking 80. i was thinking birdies pars hole by hole execution i did it you can do it too thanks for watching love you guys see you in the next video [Music] you

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021