Good Bogey - Bad Bogey

By John Hitchcock

Discover Often Overllooked Ideas to Lower Your Golf Score!

 

Bring the enjoyment in golf back into play.

 

Some bogies are good, others are bad. Learn how to tell the difference. More importantly, discover how to make the good ones part of your game and do away with those that are bad.
This book provides practical instruction on how to use your mind to lower your golf score quickly and efficiently. On top of that, to take the first step you don't even to change your swing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Hitchcock
• Release date: Mar 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201892753

John Hitchcock

Growing up in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State gave me the opportunity to develop and independent spirit, but also created an aloneness that eventually had to be dealt with.  Once I understood you don’t have to be perfect to be successful, life became enjoyable. My parents taught me that doing the right thing at the right time produced positive results. Mom and Dad both worked, but that did not prevent us from doing things as a family. We went camping, played neighborhood softball games, went to the drive-in theater for all the John Wayne movies, bowled together, and ate dinner (actually, we called it supper) together. My independent actions and ideas were allowed, even encouraged. Buying amateur radio equipment or a new BB-gun gave me the opportunity to find a job to pay for it. Thus, raising chickens and selling the eggs, even picking and canning tomatoes for the lady down the road became part of my middle school years. During the early years of college, my relationship with God gave me the courage to deal with some tough emotional challenges. Now, as an experienced classroom teacher, parent and grandparent, I am thankful for the parenting lessons my mother and father implanted in my heart. Those ideas are nothing new or radical, just logical and effective. One evidence of positive, not perfect, parenting that they imparted to me is quite simple – I continue to wake up every morning anxious and excited to get on with another good day!

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Introduction

My father had a terrible golf swing, at least compared to the fluid, powerful swing of stereotypical good golfers.

His swing was bad, but his score was good... very good!

There were two places about five inches long in which he excelled. First, the space between his ears was phenomenally effective. The thought processes he used in maneuvering the golf course almost never led to a poor decision. Second, those few inches in which the club and the ball were in contact gave a beautiful sounding click followed by a shot headed where he envisioned.

In this book you will discover how to make golf decisions that lower your score and improve your enjoyment of the game. You will find it is possible to lower your score magnificently without making significant changes in your swing.

Chapter One

Start From Where You Are

Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses

much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.

Dr. Bob Rotella

Being average in golf is not where you want to be, but it might be where you are. Do the following facts fit?

In golf, average is a score of 100 for 18 holes on a regulation course. Your drive travels just over 190 yards, but you think it is closer to 230 yards. As an average golfer, your handicap is right around 16.

Most of the time, you overestimate the length of your shot. Maybe one day you did hit a five-iron 170 yards, roll included. Then you think the 145 yard five-iron that comes up short in the trap was a mishit, when it reality, it is your average length for that club.

Your real score is hidden because you didn’t count the three-foot putt you simply raked toward the hole,