3 Types of Golf Shots

There are three types of golf shots.

There’s a good shot, a good-enough shot, and a bad shot.

That framework for evaluating shots may sound simple, but it’s important.

Why?

Because too often golfers think about their shots as either good-or-bad.

If you thin a 7-iron onto the green, your instinct is telling you that was a bad shot.

But it wasn’t a bad shot.

It wasn’t a great shot, but it was good-enough. 

As golfers, we always compare ourselves to great shots, but how many of those do we really hit?

Most golfers don’t hit many great shots, yet they focus on the quality of their great shots rather than improving the quality of their bad shots. 

Interestingly, if you break down Scottie Scheffler’s performance lately, he’s not the longest driver (18^th place), the best putter (31^st place for putts per round), the most accurate driver (23^rd place) or the lowest in greens in regulation (3^rd place).

Yet he remains the best golfer in the world! I guess his shots ARE good enough.

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