The best way to break 100 is to improve your short game—especially your wedge play. Hitting a good wedge shot can turn three shots (and sometimes more) into two, as I’ve often said.
Also, work on your putting. If you two-putted every hole, you’d take about 36 putts per round of golf (18 holes). So about 30 percent of your shots would be putts. If you can knock some strokes off your putting, you’ll lower your scores.
There are plenty of drills to help improve both your putting and your wedge play.
Here’s one below:
The Trough Drill
Take two clubs and form a narrow trough pointing at the pin. Place a ball between the two clubs. Using a seven-iron (or your favorite chipping club) Assume your normal chipping stance and practice chipping the ball to the pin. Keep the club within the trough on the way back and on the way forward.
Once you learn to make solid contact and hit the ball on a consistent ball-flight line, change clubs. Practice with all the clubs you chip with.
The drill’s benefit: The player chips it close more often and leaves herself more makeable putts, slicing strokes off her golf handicap. Work on your short game, and you’ll break 100 in no time.
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