About Golf Game
The Five Games Of Golf
Golf Game – The Five Games Of Golf
Golf consists of Five games. Each golf game is key to making you a ‘complete’ golfer, and each one requires different skills and techniques which you need to learn and practise.
1. Power game
In this part of the golf game you use the big muscles to hit the ball as far as you can – the key name of the golf game being ‘power’.
2. Short game
In the short golf game accuracy is the key, not power. These shots are generally played from inside 100 yards of the hole. The aim is to get the ball inside the ‘magic’ 8 feet circle, from which you have a much higher chance of holing your putt.
3. Bunkers
This one pretty much speaks for itself, but note that from fairway bunkers you should be using your power swing if possible.
4. Psychology
Nearly all of the top golf professionals have personal psychology coaches now..
As amateurs you can benefit HUGELY from this part of the golf game and it is well worth learning the basics. The main aim is to help you control your state of mind to help you produce a reliable consistent swing / putt when the pressure is on, but that is just the tip of a big ice-berg. It is a huge subject in it’s own right.
But remember – you use your putter far more than any other club in the bag, so it stands to reason that you should understand and practise this part of your golf game more than any other..
5. Putting
And finally we come to putting! This golf game is totally different from all the others. There is no power involved, no body movement, a different grip, and the ball never goes into the air – at least hopefully !
As the old saying goes – ‘Drive for show, putt for dough’.
