Hitting more GIR

[richy]

Im really finding it hard hitting any GIR at the moment. My past few rounds I've hardly hit any (9 tonight and didn't any). I know as a high handicap I won't hit every green in regulation but I know I should be hitting more than I am.

What should I work on to help me achieve this? Better tee shots, better approach shots?

On average how many greens should someone hit playing of the handicap that I do?

I feel if I can hit more my handicap will tumble

 

[kid2]

I would think roughly around 3 or 4......
The best way to hit them and you wont hit all is to get your short iron game in controle a bit more...The more accurate you are with this the more GiR's you'll hit.......

Also dont worry when you miss them.....It will sharpen up your short game around the greens no end if you miss them regular......
If you were to hit them all chances are you'd have a pretty crappy scrambling game.....
So enjoy the missed ones and embrace the area of your brain that gives you the imagination to play various shots around the greens.....
Get competent at scrambling around the greens and you wont have to worry so much about missing them.

 

[BTatHome]

Hard to answer without knowing a bit more. Ae your drives leaving you in the fairway (much harder to hit a green from the trees), are your drives too short (hard to hit a greens if your always 180 yards from the green), from your irons are you leaving them short (most people over estimate how far they can hit their irons), left/right of green (is it consistent, are they pushes or slices?).

Midiron work is where itrybtowork to improve gir stats, but most people will be different.

 

[jplkorea83]

I'd make a guess that you're leaving a bunch of shots short of the hole. Once I realised this and took an ectra club than I thought I'd need every hole, I started hitting more greens.

 

[richy]

Hard to answer without knowing a bit more. Ae your drives leaving you in the fairway (much harder to hit a green from the trees), are your drives too short (hard to hit a greens if your always 180 yards from the green), from your irons are you leaving them short (most people over estimate how far they can hit their irons), left/right of green (is it consistent, are they pushes or slices?).

Midiron work is where itrybtowork to improve gir stats, but most people will be different.

My driving is really poor at the moment so thats what I think may be affecting me the most, I just wanted to see what people on here thought.

Im not missing every fairway but Im not taking advantage when I hit the fairway either.

 

[Imurg]

Hard to answer without knowing a bit more. Ae your drives leaving you in the fairway (much harder to hit a green from the trees), are your drives too short (hard to hit a greens if your always 180 yards from the green), from your irons are you leaving them short (most people over estimate how far they can hit their irons), left/right of green (is it consistent, are they pushes or slices?).

Is the correct answer

You need to work out why you're not hitting greens before you can work out how to hit more.

 

[richy]

I'd make a guess that you're leaving a bunch of shots short of the hole. Once I realised this and took an ectra club than I thought I'd need every hole, I started hitting more greens.

Actually this isn't my problem, if anything I tend to over club and more often than not im towards the back of the green (but still not on it )

 

[Imurg]

You need to look at the holes you're playing as well.
Playing off 19 you're probably not going to get on many greens on holes more than 400 yards long anyway.....

 

[richy]

Is the correct answer

You need to work out why you're not hitting greens before you can work out how to hit more.

Thats the thing, I don't know why I'm not.

last 5 rounds:
36.2% FIR
8.6% GIR

 

[BTatHome]

Thats the thing, I don't know why I'm not.

last 5 rounds:
36.2% FIR
8.6% GIR

Is that 36% of fairways excluding your par 3's (it's surprising how many people give the FIR percentage without taking out the par 3's). If you have excluded them are your misses putting you in trouble or just off the fairway? I often keep a stat for "trouble off fairway" as in the first cut isn't really that bad, but behind trees or in thick rough is a bad drive.

Your best indication of your iron play should come from your par 3 performance, after all your teeing it up without trees in the way. Do you perform better or worse on par 3's ... Is there a difference when they are longer holes?

 

[Imurg]

So either you're hitting the fairway but you're a long way from the hole, or you're driving distance is ok but you're either not picking the correct iron or you're not hitting it right.

If it's the first one then either a boost in driving distance to make the 2nd shot easier

or

Work on your mid irons, get your distances dialed in and pick the right club.

According to SS2 you should only be looking at hitting 2 or 3 per round so I don't think it's something to get too worked up over.

 

[richy]

Is that 36% of fairways excluding your par 3's (it's surprising how many people give the FIR percentage without taking out the par 3's). If you have excluded them are your misses putting you in trouble or just off the fairway? I often keep a stat for "trouble off fairway" as in the first cut isn't really that bad, but behind trees or in thick rough is a bad drive.

Your best indication of your iron play should come from your par 3 performance, after all your teeing it up without trees in the way. Do you perform better or worse on par 3's ... Is there a difference when they are longer holes?

Im not to sure, those stats are off the golfshot app that I enter my round into once I'm home. (I think its excluding par 3's)

Its a mixed bag with my driving, sometimes they're just off the fairway other times they're way off (fighting a push slice at the moment)

 

[DaveM]

With your drive as your push/slicing. Tee up your ball on the righthand side of the tee box. Aim towards a target on the lefthand side of the fairway. That way you have the whole fairway to push slice back into. More chance of keeping it on the short stuff. If you tee up to fire down the center of the fairway you only have half the fairway to slice into.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think off your handicap I wouldn't be too worried about GIR. Take any hole over 400 yards and unless you bust a drive the best you'll realistically be looking at left is 170-190. That is a tough ask to do regularly with a hybrid, fairway wood or long iron. I played the Forest of Arden and refused to take on any par 4 (there were six) over 400 yards long. Several times I hit good drives and left myself an opportunity but with my short game the risk outweighed the success rate. I hit short irons into my favourite wedge distance. Funny enough I scored 11 out of 12 points for those 6 and only dropped the point because of a 3 putt from nowhere.

The point is you need to be looking at your course management and how you play the holes. It might be you can hit two good shots and make the par 5's in regulation if you are that hung up about GIR. The thing is if you are missing are you leaving yourself in bad places and relying too much on a superb short game and are these where big numbers are coming from. No pictures on scorecards and if you make a 5 (on a par 4) and a 6 (on the 5's) by playing short and for position who will know. The ball is in play more often and you'll score better