Successful people rarely treat every opportunity as equally important.
In business, investing and demanding professions, the goal is usually the same:
Find the few things that produce the greatest return—and put more resources there.
But golfers often do exactly the opposite.
They give every part of their game attention.
A little time hitting drivers. A few irons. Some wedges. A handful of putts. Maybe a few bunker shots.
Then something goes wrong on Saturday and next week's practice session gets devoted to fixing that.
The problem isn't effort.
It's where the effort is being invested.
Because not every golf skill has the same influence on your score.
Not every practice drill produces the same return.
And not every decision on the golf course carries the same consequences.
Consider a golfer who spends hours trying to hit the driver 10 yards farther—but repeatedly loses strokes from 50 yards and in.
Or the golfer who works endlessly on swing mechanics but still fires at tucked pins, chooses risky recovery shots and turns manageable bogeys into doubles.
Those are expensive places to spend—or waste—strokes.
The 80–20 Golf Method™ applies a principle successful people have used for generations:
That means identifying the short-game skills that matter most.
Knowing which shots deserve the most practice.
Choosing targets that leave room for your normal miss.
Knowing when to attack—and when bogey is a perfectly good outcome.
And learning how to prevent one poor swing from becoming three wasted strokes.
You only have so much time to work on your golf game.
The question isn't whether you're willing to put in the effort.
It's whether you're putting that effort where it pays the biggest dividends on the scorecard.
Until next time,
Your friends at GoingLow.com
