This Simple Golf Hack Is ILLEGAL On The Course… But Every Amateur Should Try It When Practicing!

There is no better feeling in golf than standing on the tee box and flushing one straight down the middle, but finding more fairways can be a difficult target to achieve for amateur golfers.

Despite a desire to improve your accuracy on the golf course, it appears the odds of finding the short grass might be slightly against you – according to the latest Shot Scope data.

The average amateur golfer hits around 47% of fairways off the tee, with a scratch golfer only averaging marginally above that (50%), but there is no need to be content with just being ‘average’.

In this article, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach and PGA Professional Peter Finch shares a simple golf hack to try on the driving range that will revolutionise your performance off the tee – but remember not to try this one on the golf course…

Peter Finch: Simple Golf Hack For Finding More Fairways

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Peter Finch

Peter Finch is one of the most recognisable PGA professionals in the world, delivering online free lessons to golfers across the globe with a combined social following of almost one million people.

In his coaching career, Peter Finch has supported golfers of all abilities to play better golf and shoot lower scores.

Improving your performance off the tee is a key component of the recipe for how to break 80 in golf, but it also allows us to be more positive with our second shot into the green.

If you are a 10-handicap or above, the stats suggest you are going to miss more fairways than you hit, but that in itself provides an opportunity – as if you can improve your driving accuracy then you should start to see a cut to your handicap index.

Much of this comes down to alignment on the tee box, which is something you can practice during your next driving range session using this very simple golf hack.

I must warn you, however, this is actually ‘illegal’ on the golf course, but every amateur golfer should absolutely try this when next hitting a bucket of balls while practicing at their local club.

Pick a target in the distance, then place a tee peg in the ground a few feet in front of your golf ball which is on that chosen target line. The tee peg now becomes your intermediate target, while the spot in the distance is your desired location.

Now, forget the desired location for a second and just focus on lining up the centre of the clubface with the intermediate target (the tee peg).

While you can’t place a marker in the ground on the course, you can use an object or mark that is already there – so try to pick out a leaf, divot, twig or something else that can act as your intermediate target.

Try to imagine you are playing on the course, so don’t spend too much time thinking about your swing mechanics – just let everything flow naturally.

The idea is to get the golf ball travelling over the intermediate target. As if by magic, I bet you will notice your tee shots ending up much closer to your desired location in the middle of the fairway.