New Golf Book: YOU Can Break 90 - Lower Your Scores Without Lessons Or Practice

Read the Introduction from YOU Can Break 90:

I’m not a professional golfer or golf instructor, but I figured out how
to lower my scores without lessons or practice.

I took up golf in my forties, and a few years after I started playing I
found myself with ‘average’ senior golf abilities and unsatisfactory
scores. During most rounds of golf I would have five or six disaster
holes. I might bogey a particular hole on one day, then get a triple
or worse the next. Pars were rare occurrences. I knew that at this
stage in my life I wasn’t going to be able to bomb the ball long
distances, and I’d rather spend my time playing than practicing, so
I researched golf strategy and course management to find a way to
lower my scores with the game I have.

I found a number of good suggestions for better players, but few
for average golfers. While investigating strategy I bought a number
of new drivers and fairway woods to try to find ones I could hit
longer and more consistently. I discovered that building clubs from
components was a low-cost way to get new clubs, and learned
about clubfitting and how golf clubs work in the process of building
clubs. I then realized that a lot of my problems were due to trying to
play with certain clubs that were beyond my abilities. When I
stopped doing that, and began using a strategy based on clubs I
could consistently hit, the disaster holes disappeared and my
scores dropped 10 strokes.

Why did I have to dig so deep for what I wanted? Because of the
way the golf industry wants us to try to play the game. The playing
strategy generally recommended is to try to reach each green in
regulation, and use your short game when you come up short or
miss the green. I call this GIR (green in regulation) golf. The golf
clubs sold to us are oriented toward playing GIR golf.

According to the National Golf Foundation (www.ngf.org), only 8%
of adult golfers usually score under 80, 20% score from 80-89,
31% from 90-99, 30% from 100-119, and 11% over 120, with an
average score of 97 (95 for men and 106 for women). This is a
normal distribution (bell curve) of scores, which is what you'd
expect with millions of golfers. It stands to reason that the abilities
behind these scores also follow a normal distribution. So less
than 10% of all golfers even have the ability to reach most greens
in regulation.

The first chapter in this book takes a unique look at golf abilities
and explains how swing speed strongly influences them. It will
help you take an honest look at your abilities. A lot of people think
they're 'pretty good' golfers, so they play and buy golf clubs
accordingly. The reason for this is that golf industry marketing
distorts our perception. Golf club companies and instructors make
money selling new drivers and swing theories, so they want all of
us to keep thinking we can play like Tiger if we buy their wares.

The second chapter in this book gives recommendations for set
makeup and shows how an individual should test the suitability of
clubs for their abilities. The last two chapters discuss playing
strategy, provide a good strategy for average golfers and show that
breaking 90 is within the realm of possibility for many golfers.