"92% of golfers that have come to Golf Made Simple looking to
break 90 for the first time have been successful in reaching their goal!"

You've made it - what took you so long? I've been waiting for you!

OK, we've got a lot to cover and not as much time as we'd like to do it. There was a difference between these 2-golfers and it wasn't even close.

We see this difference every Golf Made Simple program we do. 99 out of 100 golfers we see are always aiming at the middle of the fairway on their tee shots. And these are the same people that write in their Registration Evaluation that keeping their Driver in play and hitting more fairways is their #1 priority.

And that's how the 21 handicap continually plays. And that's how he played when I went out with him - he hit some very solid shots, but made double bogey! What do you think was racing through his mind on the 1st tee knowing there was out-of-bounds on the right and that he always sliced his Driver? I'm sure he had far too many swing thoughts on what he has to do in every movement of his golf swing and at the same time he was worried about the out-of-bounds to the right.

I say he got lucky just to hit the golf ball as well as he did on that swing because most people that are in that same situation as he is with the slice and the out-of-bounds right, end-up topping the ball or popping it up or hitting it out of bounds. And that's why the Monkeys always play 2-shots on the 1st tee even though they had half-an-hour to warm-up at the range before they started. "I have 1st tee jitters." No wonder why you have "1st tee jitters" - you've got too many things on your mind.

The 11 handicap that's been playing for only 3 years and by this summer will be a Single Digit Player is on a completely different path in his golf game. He has figured out that he'll not hit every shot perfect. He would like to hit it perfect, but he knows this isn't going to happen. So he's learned to play smart. He's learned to understand his game instead of playing someone else's game.

For example: "I've been fading the golf ball, so I'm going to play down the left side." As simple as that is to do and as basic as that is to do - WHY DON'T THE MONKEYS DO IT!!! Is it too simple? The interesting thing is that PGA and LPGA Tour Players don't hit the golf ball straight - no one does. They all have a Fade or Draw (some even play a hook or slice), but the key to their success is that they know their ball is going to go that way, so they aim for it. But trust me, they rarely hit the ball straight and if they can't hit it straight - "What are you thinking?"

The 11-handicap has learned that to be successful at the game of golf - you need to do 2-things - Control Your Distance and Aim Away from the Trouble. That's it. It's really that SIMPLE. Trust me, the 11-handicap's Drive on the 1st hole wasn't hit very good, but he was in play and had a shot - if hadn't aimed away from the trouble (out-of-bounds to the right), he'd being hitting 3 from the tee. His 2nd shot was hit even less good than his Drive and he ended up 41-yards short of the flag. Most Golfers we see would be upset and complaining about this shot and how they aren't on the green and that's where they need to be. Our 11 handicap, soon to be a Single Digit, didn't care about getting on the green or getting it as close to the green as he could. He was concerned about getting a good angle to the flag.

He understands that you'll hit a better shot to the green and get closer to the hole from 50-yards away from a good angle (meaning no trouble in your way), than being 10-yards short but having to hit a high shot over the bunker so the ball doesn't roll off the back of the green. He understands that the Monkeys learned to play golf by watching other golfers they play with and from watching golf on TV. And that's a bad thing, but we don't have enough room here to get into that, so we'll talk about it in a couple of Golf Improvement Weekly's from now.

See the 21 handicap might make a birdie or 2 during a round of golf playing his style of play, but all those double and triple bogeys cancel out that birdie or 2. How many golfers do you know that are continually looking what pin position the hole is at - but at the same time struggle with inconsistency? My thought is that if you're inconsistent - then chances of you hitting the golf ball where you want to is somewhere from 50% of the time to less than that. So if at best you hit the ball to where you want only 1 out of every 2 shots -Why are you even looking at the pin position? Your chances of hitting it there is at best 50%, but for most people, it's probably even less!

"Then Marc, if I'm not looking at the pin position, how will I know where the flag is? I need to get the ball as close to the hole as possible to 1 or 2 putt." I agree with you, but by finding the better angle to the flag will allow you to end up closer to the hole on your 3rd shot than trying to always attack the hole. Trust me, the Golf Course Architect that designed the golf course you're playing understands your desire and that the 1st place you'll always look is the flag - and he's not rooting for you to make good scores on his golf course. Play Smart!

This is 1-reason why our 9-holes of On-Course (Instruction) is so valuable each day. We make sure you develop a PLAN for your game so that you can play to your Strengths and maybe even more importantly - you learn to play away from your weaknesses! Think about it this way - Your score is not determined by the amount of great shots you hit during a round of golf - the number of bad shots influences your score more than anything - meaning those holes that you end up with the double bogeys and triple bogeys. Though if you understand that you'll hit a couple of bad shots during a round and you should PLAN just in case those shots happen - you also can improve your game into the 80's and below like our 11-handicap has. In fact, before he came to Golf Made Simple 2 1/2 years ago - he had never broken 105 and that included a few Mulligans and a bunch of "gimme's" each round. Now look at him!

Are you ready to do the same thing?