Breaking Your Scoring Barrier
Every golfer is working on one wall at a time. Find yours, learn the arithmetic behind it, and play to a number instead of hoping.
Each barrier falls to a different discipline. Breaking 100 is about eliminating penalty strokes and triples. Breaking 90 is bogey golf plus one par. Breaking 80 is a thin-margin game of approach play and scrambling. Start with the wall in front of you, not the one two levels up.
New here? Start with How to Break 100: The First Big Wall, then work along the list below.
The 3 guides in this section
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How to Break 100: The First Big Wall
Nine bogeys and nine doubles gets it done. Kill the penalty strokes and the triples, not your swing.
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How to Break 90: A Realistic Plan
The bogey-golf math, tee and approach strategy, the 3-shot rule on par 5s, and which holes to attack, manage, or survive.
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How to Break 80: What Actually Changes
Eleven pars on a thin margin: approach play, scrambling, and the mental error that wrecks good rounds.
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Turn these guides into a plan for your course
Pick the number you are chasing and all eighteen holes come back sorted: Green to attack, Yellow to manage, Red to survive, each with a target score on it. Play the hole the right way, one number at a time.
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