“KISSG” Keep It Simple Super Golfer

Each fun technique is designed to make you a better player and have more fun. Each fun technique will be a short technique, which will be a ball lesson. So you should hit the number of balls suggested. For instance, chipping will be a 60 ball lesson, putting has a 45 ball lesson. Each lesson will establish a routine for hitting a basic “bread and butter” shot. After learning the basic techniques you can then practice variations of the shot.

Joe Putter’s Fast and Easy Golf Instruction for You!!

The reason I am here is to help you improve your game without hitting 6 zillion balls or 146 easy swing positions. I want to make your game great fun, and I want you to improve. These are my goals for you. When golf began some 250 years ago, there weren’t ranges or practice facilities, only a place to tee it up and hit it. When my great, great, great, great uncle Finnias T. McPutter played golf around 1796, he had a stick and leather wrapped circular object he struck with his shillelagh golf club. He was one of the premier players of the day.

Back then there were only a small number of players. Today there are 58 million golfers. Most of them are just like me - fatheads! Remember some of the scores that Harry Vardon and Bobby Jones shot - 70, 69,74, 72 - great scores with clubs that had shafts made of wood and the iron heads were more suited to shaving a beard than striking a golf ball. The balls were poorly made and the courses were overgrown, uneven and full of weeds. Today’s standards are astounding - balls that are perfect, clubs with a good coefficient of restitution, courses that approach sublime perfection.

Yet today’s golfers are still the fatheads that they were 70 years ago. How much have we improved? The average score is still about 95, if we interpret the rules according to the USGA rule book and not our pencil. So what? So what! Yes, everyone wants to improve. That is the nature of the game. But golf is so much more than that. It is a game of immense fun. A game where Tiger Woods spends hours practicing to get better, a game where you shot 99 and break 100 for the first time and start planning to break 90. A game where it’s cold, windy, rainy, and you’re worried about sinking a 6 foot putt. Why? ‘Cause it’s fun. It is fun for Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and other PGA players, just as it is for the guy who just broke 90 or 100 for the first time. So here are my rules for improvement for you:

1. Follow a routine and use a routine.
2. Make the learning fun.
3. Keep the instruction simple and easy.

You will learn and improve without spending $2 million dollars or 16 weeks practicing. The lessons will be easy and fun. For instance, when I teach a chipping of sand lesson, I don’t expect you to spend 95 hours practicing. Just a short time, say 20 or 30 minutes, should help you tremendously. When you’re playing and hit a fine shot and your buddies ask, “Where did you learn that,” you can say, “A friend of mine taught me.”

Joe Putter’s Golf Instruction: What Is Chipping?

What is chipping? Chipping is just rolling the ball across the green into the hole. When you prepare to hit a chip, what are you thinking about? Don’t hit the ball fat. Make sure you get the ball to the hole. Straight back - straight through? These thoughts just confuse what you are trying to do. That is, hit the ball into the hole. “No, Joe, I’m trying to get the ball close.” Then you are not playing golf, you are playing “Close Gulf.” The object is to get the ball into the hole. That’s golf.

What will make it simple to hit the ball into the hole? Not mechanics, but a simple effective routine. If mechanics were the answer, then everyone would be a great chipper. That is not the case. if we follow a set routine, then we can eliminate mechanical thinking and concentrate on the most important thing, which is hitting the ball into the hole. Also as we get more comfortable with a routine, we can vary the routine slightly for various shots or circumstances. Joe Putter’s mantra is “the closer you are to the hole the more important the shot.” If I asked you to stand about 20 or 30 yards from the pin and toss a ball to the cup, you probably would need about 30 or so tries to become fairly good at it. Just because you put a stick in your hands with a glob on the end should not make much difference. Oh. Yes, you might have to hit 40 or 50 shots to get good.Then why fellow fatheads do we make it so difficult? The reason is because we are not thinking end result but the mechanics of swinging the stick with the glob on the end.

Enough is enough, let’s learn to chip. Watch the video and read the instructions below. Hit about 65 practice shots and then chip like a pro, using the stick with the glob on the end.

1. With your feet together play the ball off the right instep. That will breed consistency. If you place the ball consistently in the same position, the shot will react the same each time.

2. Take perfect aim. Make positively sure you are aiming perfectly at your target. You may feel that you are aimed left, but remember that you are standing left of the target if you are right-handed.

3. Move your left foot to the left. Allow your weight and club to move left also.

4. Hit the ball in the hole. This is your target, goal, objective.