AUSTIN, TX – All golfers, even the best ones, get into difficult predicaments due to errant shots or bad breaks. How they recover from those situations determines how well they will score. In his new book, Dave Pelz’s Damage Control, Dave explains how you can improve your scores by intelligently and methodically handling trouble situations on the golf course.
A long-running argument about golf instruction says there’s nothing new for the game’s teachers to impart to golfers that hasn’t already been brought to light. However, the goal of Dave Pelz’s working life (and 30-year career in golf) has been to research and understand golf well enough, and teach it effectively enough, to help golfers score better and have more fun.
Through a recent Pelz Golf Institute research project, Pelz and his staff found these new and groundbreaking points: â?¢ Golfers play two to fives strokes better than their handicaps for most of each round they play. â?¢ They also have disaster holes mixed in, bringing their total scores back up to their handicap level.
In pursuit of golf knowledge, Pelz’s research first led him to putting, then to the short game, and now to what he’s discovered to be "Damage Control." Damage Control, according to Pelz, is a crucial, never-before-taught arena of golf instruction.
"Damage Control is not about avoiding trouble in the first place. It’s about how to get out of it once you’re in it, with the least possible damage to your score" Pelz says. "We’ll reveal the five skills of Damage Control (Set-up-ology, Swing Shaping, Hand-Fire Feel, Red-Flag Touch, and Damage Control Mentality), and guide you through practice methods you can easily use in your backyard to learn these skills. If you learn and apply these methods, you can turn potentially disastrous situations into round savers."
Why You Need Damage Control Every golfer gets into trouble lies. Trouble lies cause troubled swings and troubling results. The majority of most golfers’ practice has been spent hitting shots from perfect lies on level practice ground. It’s no surprise this doesn’t help them play from trouble.
Most golfers aren’t aware that when their lie gets worse, their swings get much worse, and their shot patterns get exponentially worse. They don’t know the set-up postures and swings required from trouble lies are different from those normally used and practiced, and they don’t realize where their shots are going to go when they execute really bad swings from trouble lies.
"The data proved golfers don’t escape well from trouble lies on sidehill sloping-terrain, deep grass, or from under low-hanging tree limbs, because they try to do so using normal golf swings," Pelz says. "I realized normal swings don’t work from trouble lies. I knew I needed to share this with golfers everywhere and give them the tools to properly recover from trouble.
"I played my entire career trying to get good enough to stay out of trouble while never practicing getting out of trouble, which is what I actually needed. I only recently discovered how amateurs consistently foil their rounds with disaster holes. At the same time, I’ve been coaching two of the world’s best players, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, seeing how they save their scores after their errant shots find trouble. In putting these two results together, I discovered why amateurs score disastrously from trouble while pros don’t. I discovered five skills that pros have that amateurs don’t, which we now call the Five Skills of Damage Control."
These skills can help you lower your scores if you learn and practice them.
Pelz’s groundbreaking new book features hundreds of color photos and detailed illustrations as well as a set of drills that will enhance the reader’s learning and execution of Damage Control. The Pelz Golf Institute is the publisher of the 320-page Dave Pelz’s Damage Control. Eddie Pelz and Joel Mendelman are the co-authors.
Dave Pelz’s Damage Control is available for $29.95 (US) exclusively at www.pelzgolf.com or by calling 800-833-7370.
Contact:
CARL MICKELSON
800-833-7370, EXT. 831
cm@pelzgolf.com
