You can beat the course designer or the superintendent’s revenge. They’re trying to seduce you into approach shots with a high chance of finding trouble. They’re playing ‘the game of misses’, while many of you are ‘challenging perfection’.

Here is a typical challenge. It appears innocuous.

But impose your shot dispersion pattern over this and there’s trouble.

You should be choosing a club that allows you to hit the back of this green, even slightly long – but not long enough to find the back right bunker.

An imperfect shot leaves you beyond the bunkers. If it is perfect you’re all the way to the back, but still 2 to get down and walk away with a par. The shorter end of imperfection and you have a chance at a birdie. Thinking golfers know that while “golf is the search for perfection, it is a game of misses”.

In a playing lesson, we’re looking to help improve your golf so that the scale of your “misses” is reduced and the likelihood of you hitting good shots is increased. We’re also trying to help golfers adopt an approach to the game that reduces the frustrations, improves their enjoyment, and lowers their score. Book a playing lesson with us below.