Best tips for breaking 90, according to medium handicappers

I have dear memories of playing golf in high school. Competing on the course every day after the last bell. Putting races in green practice. Leaving in the range. When I think again at the time, I can’t help but smile.

PERHAPS best The memory I have, however, is the first time I have broken 90 on a tour. It was the last event of my first season, and I would be on the verge of broken a few times before – but I would never do it well. Then – finally – happened. Seeing 89 climbing to the board was one of the best feelings I can remember.

I’m sure many of you reading this site have your beloved memories of Breaking 90 for the first time. I know that many of our employees do, so I asked them what was the biggest key to their progress. You can see their answers below.

1. Tighten your short game

There was a time when I thought the distance was the key to all the metrics of success in Golf. Then I began to accept the fact that I will never be Bryson dechambeau Ball 300-plus by tee. The dedication to speed and strength was just not on the cards for me. If it is in you, this can unlock what you need to break 90 for the first time. But for me, everything had to do with the short game.

I started focusing on the shots of 100 yards and inside. I’m not a big guy of running. My practice switched to a local course and putt. This allowed me very really calling on my wedges and setting. I treated those rounds like the practical session where I would drop multiple balls around green and hit some shots from my finger (if no one was behind me, of course). Before I knew, those short game results were translated into full -sized courses, and I noticed my results to fall in the 80s. —Time Reilly (8 Handikap)

2. Get a lesson

In addition to playing a par-70 golf course? (Thank you, Bethpage Red!) I would say it was focusing on two things: swinging plane and impact position. Like with many regular ’90s, my swinging was wild, resulting in a gnarly slice that only deteriorated as I tried to close the club (read: swung MORE out-of-side). I worked hard to “mention” my swing, which I made by placing strips on the ground around the golf ball (left and right right for a right) to serve as “bumper” for my swinging.

The real surprise, however, was my position of influence. After passing my first swinging teaching, I learned that the wrists of my hands turned to the Impact (from a bullet hand leaning to a stuffed), making it almost impossible to make the right contacts with the ball. After practicing hand holding bent all the way, my consistency was shot in the roof and the best results were quickly followed. —James Colgan (9 Handikap)

3. Eliminate large numbers

Well, since I was a better golf player 20 years ago than I now, when I finally went through and started shooting in the 80s was constantly due to Eliminate those large numbers. But I think even more importantly that it was cleaning my short game. I would do nothing now to retrieve some of the short games I had when I was younger, it means when I was missing Greens, I was sure enough in my game I could open it near and get up up and down a good amount of time. It is easy to blaze a chip and then hit another evil up to 20 meters away and probably with two putt, so being able to clash and save a small piece of a round is essential. —To Berhow (14 Handikap)

4. Find “that”

Find ‘it,’ whatever ” it ‘can be – an control, an action, whatever – bake it’ inside and think about ‘that’ while playing. One or two thoughts. I found everything else that Kinda fell in place after that. (If you are curious, for me, ‘it’ was finding the right amount of shoulder turn with different clubs and making sure I arrived at that point.) Or just play winter rules but you didn’t hear it from I. —Nick Pastowski (14 Handikap)