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    Like any other sport, golf has basic rules that should always be adhered to, even if you are not a competitive player and just like to hit a few rounds on the course in your leisure time. It makes the game fair, challenging, and respectful to the other players you are with.

    Here are three such rules:

    1. Do not cheat by switching balls during a hole. The rules state that you must play with the same ball from the tee off to the final putt. Wherever the ball lands on each shot, that is where you play it from.

    2. Always carry a scorecard with you. It is not absolutely necessary, especially if you do not plan on keeping score, but even if not, having a scorecard is a great way to track your progress.

    3. The best way to progress in golf and improve your short game is to compare older scorecards with your current game. In other words, if you just hit the course yesterday, and today bring along that scorecard. You now have an opportunity to look at every shot made an improve on mistakes.

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    Golf Tip: Never Turn One Bad Shot Into A Second Bad Shot

    By Foursome

    One of the leading causes of failure in golf is getting frustrated. Frustration breeds nothing but mistakes, mistakes, and more mistakes. It is truly one of the hallmark enemies of players who seem to fall into the same old traps, time and time again on the course.

    It basically works like this: You play a bad shot which does nothing but make you angry. This frustration builds and when it comes time for your second shot – what happens? As expected, you hit another bad shot, with the second shot seemingly worse than the first.

    This Happened To Me Just Last Sunday:

    I took a shot and ran the ball so long and deep into the rough that the only club I could use to hit the next shot was a wedge. If I were thinking clearly I would have gone with my own instincts and used that wedge, but frustration seeped in and for some reason an old article came to mind where Tiger Woods suggested that “such shots should be taken care of by the use of a heavy iron, whiling playing the ball back in your stance.”

    So if Tiger said it was so, then why not? As you can guess, the next thing I know my middle iron is all tangled up in the rough as I swung. The ball barely moved and ended up in lie that was even worse than before. I gained absolutely nothing and at this point my frustration was literally blowing steam from my ears. The Lesson?

    Instead of going with the wedge as my club of choice to get the ball out of the fairway, as my instincts told me to do so, and which also I considered to be a “wasted shot”, I made a bad decision. One bad shot turned into two bad shots.

    So the expert golf tip here is that if you ever find yourself in trouble on the course, drop the ego and listen to your instincts. Never play a shot that has more chances of going bad than not. Instead, take the safe road and set up that second shot so that it leads to a successful third shot.

    And of course, the best way to prevent these mistakes altogether is to not get into trouble into the first place – but what fun would golf be if we never faced these exciting challenges?

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