[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by G50

He'll have fun with it, then.

From your previous posts, he sounds like a great athlete. Even with just some basic hand eye coordination (and common sense!), 105 should be easy to break with a little bit of practice.

My only tip would be this: Most people have golf scoring strategy all wrong. They think the driver is most important, and it's the opposite. For scoring, the most important is putting, and the order of importance of the clubs moves backwards from there.

So, most impt is putting, next is chipping, next is approach irons, etc. The driver is actually least important, on most courses as long as you get the ball even 120-150 yards out there on the drive, it's going to be playable and par will be possible.

Most kids when they start spend way too much time practicing the driver. If he can get decent at putting and chipping, breaking 100 is no sweat.

Oh, I guess my other tip is this: If he really wants to try to improve, IMO you have to get him lessons. The problem is, practicing without lessons just makes your bad habits (and he'll have lots as a beginner) more ingrained and harder to correct. It's a paradoxical situation where the more hours your spend practicing, the worse you are making your game in the long term. Kids learn fast, and with a good coachable athlete like your son, even a 1/2 hour lesson once a week will make a HUGE difference to him over even a 2 or 3 month period. It will make it more fun for him.

Thats what I told him! I don't know much but I said 'lets look at it this way - you drive 18 times a game, fairway irons then chips are most of the game. If you chip really well then maybe you can 1 putt it out. His short game is tight. He has develped a bad habit of opening up his swing. I have showed him some tech to keep the back of his hand facing the hole upong impact. he has a really smooth swing. He putts well and chips very well.