Golf Tip # 5

IMPROVING YOUR APPROACH SHOTS

A Three Part Series

Part 2: RANGE FINDERS

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I hope you took the time to find your yardage with your irons and have one particular ball you play with!

Now, what I would like for you to do is go out and purchase a set of laser range finders. Good quality laser range finders can be purchased for as little as $140.00 and will go up to as much to $450.00    Please understand I do not have stock in Bushnell!!

You may be thinking at this point that this is cheating but as you will see it is not!!

Touring professionals and their caddies all use them. Try going out to a practice round of a PGA Tour event and you will see that all caddies have them strapped on their belts or on the player’s golf bag. They will use them on that day and may have someone help them get more yardage days before the tournament. They will use two way radios and another person many times to get yardage on each hole. They will know what the yardage is to a particular water hazard or a bunker and many different points on the golf course. They will also know the distance to the front, center and back of all greens, as well as many more points on those greens! The caddies and professionals generally both will have a book they have created with all of that information for that particular course.

So if you will for a moment, consider this! A player that makes his living playing golf would never dream of playing a tournament without all this information. So, I encourage you to do the same!!  You do not have to have as much information as a touring professional but, remember more information is better than less!!

Take your range finders and practice with them this month as you play. It will take a bit of practice learning how to use them. Try standing on a tee that has a shot over water and get the accurate distance to clear that water before you hit that shot. Laser the distance on a tee of a par three to the flag; aim directly at the flag on the pin itself with your rangefinders to get the yardage.  You may also try shooting the distance to clear a bunker or other important areas on the course. 

Work on using your range finders and get proficient with them and we put this into action next month with step 3 of this three-part tip series.

Randy Brown
Golf Tips from the Pro