Turn Three Shots Into Two

Whether your skills are strictly amateur or allow you to keep pace with any single-digit handicapper, you'll never reach your true potential as a golfer unless you learn one of the game’s great tricks: turning three shots into two around the greens. In other words, you must find a way to become a scorer. Scoring is what separates the better players you know from everybody else. Taken to a higher analogy, it’s what separates the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh from the rest of the players on the PGA Tour.

Every golfer is bound to miss a green or two (or three or nine) during the course of a round, which always presents a challenge to your scoring ability. Regardless of your driving and long-iron skills, if you can't get the ball close to the cup (and sometimes in it) when you do miss a green, your scores are going to skyrocket like a popped-up lob wedge. However, if you can make the most of a green missed, you'll keep bogeys at bay and maybe produce a few birdies, and that’s when scores really begin to plummet. The key to turning three shots into two is assessing the lie and selecting the right shot. The Automatic Swing Trainer helps you turn 3 shots in to 2.

By Chuck Winstead, PGA

Playing Well From Within 100 Yards Is a Must If You Want To Score Well

Playing well from within 100 yards is a must if you want to score well. Just look at the best players in the world. They all miss the fairway sometimes, but from within 100 yards, there isn't a player out there who doesn't expect to knock it close from “a hundie” and in. This is golf’s scoring zone, where the difference between a long birdie putt and a short tap-in can be made up by hitting the right kinds of shots. Yeah, that’s right. You have to know what it takes to not only hit the green from 100 yards, but what kind of shot you need to hit to stick it close.

By Jeff Yurkiewicz, PGA, With Ryan Noll

The Automatic Swing Trainer is the perfect tool to help you improve your accuracy from 100 yards and in.

Improve Your Short Game With The Automatic Swing Trainer

Pelz Golf Institute research has proven that golfers lose almost 80 percent of their shots to par inside of 100 yards from the hole. The Automatic Swing Trainer was designed to help golfers improve their distance accuracy from shots within 100 yards.

Patrick Brooks
http://www.theautomaticswingtrainer.com/

The Importance of Wedges in the Game of Golf

The one place where you can begin lowering your scores immediately is with your wedges. Focus is on the tools and techniques for hitting better shots around the green, and trimming strokes from your score.

A great compliment to your wedges is the Automatic Swing Trainer. It helps you with your distance.

Incorporate good wedges and the knowledge of how to use them and instantly/easily start lowering your scores and making the game even more enjoyable.

Patrick Brooks
www.theautomaticswingtrainer.com

How can I hit one short game shot per hole?

Let's talk about the Memorial golf tournament, the field and of course the winner, Kenny Perry. A brief review of the tournament statistics and their averages show this:

• Driving distance-280 yards,
• Driving Accuracy-74%,
• Greens In Regulation- 59%,
• Scrambling- 50%,
• Putts Per Round- 28 and
• Scoring- 73 (Kenny Perry 70).

The statistic that really stands out for me is the scrambling statistic. Only half of the world's best players get up and down after missing the green in regulation! The next question that we should ask is what is the other half doing? They are getting on the green and two putting. This brings me to one of the cardinal rules in teaching golf that our PGA Professional staff work on at the Colleton River Plantation Club. One short game shot per hole! I know this may be stating the obvious, but if every amateur could hit one short game shot per hole onto the green and two putt, they should be very happy. After all, they would be doing exactly what half of the best players in the world are doing! Now this doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to get up and down, and I would never turn that down on the golf course. But there are times on the course when you can realistically get on the green and one putt, and there are times when you can't. The old adage comes to mind, "You have to choose your battles" and when the golf course is not being user friendly, such as when the ball sits down with a tight pin placement, cut your losses, get the ball on the green, two putt and move on. The whole goal here is to avoid two short game shots on one hole and then two or three putting.

In my opinion, this is one of the main areas in golf that professionals understand and execute better than amateurs. The good news here is that these shots are not physically demanding. This tells me that discipline, not physical ability, is what's needed. The Automatic Swing Trainer provides exactly that feedback to the player to hit that 'one short game shot'.

Chris Ries
www.theautomaticswingtrainer.com

How do I control the distance of my golf swing?

There are several ways to make the ball fly shorter or longer with the same club. But for consistency, you should regulate your distance control through the position of your arm in the backswing. It's a great formula for you. Hit full shots (with your left arm at 10 o'clock) and half shots (9 o'clock) with each of your wedges using your normal swing tempo. Take note of how far the ball goes. Presto! You have two base yardages for every wedge in your bag. That's how you build a solid game from around 100 yards--the scoring zone. The Automatic Swing Trainer provides exactly that feed back to help the player understand the length of their back swing!

Chris Ries
The Automatic Swing Trainer

How do I hit the ball closer to the hole?

If you can get up and down just one more time from 50-60 yards out on your next round, think how wonderful that would be. What about hitting it closer from 100 yards and in every single time!

If you are more consistent with half shots, maybe this golf tip isn’t for you but I think a lot of golfers are more consistent with full shots. So now is the time to start nailing those 50-100 yarders. The automatic swing trainer does exactly that. It is the first ever golf training aid that provides the player instant feed back to help control the length of their backswing!

Chris Ries
The Automatic Swing Trainer

The Automatic Swing Trainer is the Perfect Father's Day Gift

Newly patented golf swing training aid, The Automatic Swing Trainer, hits the market just in time for Father's Day. Washington DC area trio Patrick Brooks, Roy Phillips and Chris Ries, took a great idea from start to finish. In October 2006 the product was born, taking an idea of mastering 3 different length back swings and combined all of your wedges? Yes, you can perfect just about any "in between swings" from 100 yards and in. The Automatic Swing Trainer actually measures the length of your back swing alerting you when you have reached one of three desired back swings (7:30, 9:00 or 10:30) and even alerts you once you have properly extended your arms through impact. Now you can learn to Hit It Tight!

Patrick Brooks
Co-Creator of The Automatic Swing Trainer

Phil Mickelson Wins with 5 Wedges

Can you believe Phil carried five wedges in a PGA tournament! He must have been deadly accurate from 100 yards and in. The distances he was confident with ranged from 30 to 100 yards easily. This is exaclty what all golfers need to do to lower their scores. The Automatic Swing Trainer provides you with that knowledge and understanding to hit it tight.

Chris Ries
Mid Atlantic Section
Golf Teaching Professional
chris@theautomaticswingtrainer.com

Masters Champion Unstoppable from 100 yards and In, Exactly what the Automatic Swing Trainer helps to Improve

Improve your accuracy from 100 yards and in with the Automatic Swing Trainer.