Lower Your Handicap

by Golf Buddy
Wouldn't you like to lower your handicap? Well if youare like most of us you probably donat know how to make that happen. However, the David L. Baker Golf Course, located in the heart of Orange County, can help you improve your game. The course is a par 62 medium length course that allows you to play on tight fairways with plenty of water and sand hazards. You'll increase your confidence while playing in these conditions and the short par threes will help increase the accuracy of your short game.

The par fours at David Baker max out at just around 320 yards, so you have two options to tackle these tight fairways. The big-hitters approach, of course, is to break out the Ping or Callaway driver and go for the green.

This works if you're accurate but most golfers need to work on their accuracy. So why not take out a five iron, follow it with a wedge and knock in that ten footer for birdie. All the while youall be working your short game.

It is on this second option that the short par fours afford us that the aimprove your golf scorea nature of David L Baker Golf Course is first revealed. The second way to improve your score here is on the accessible par threes.

Since the short game is where all the scoring happens, Bakeras par threes allow us to get some serious score improvement work done. Since you will usually be using less than a 7 iron into the greens, you are going to have a chance to get up and down frequently.

Many golfers will be tempted to go for the pin on these short par three holes. However there are some unseen hazards lurking around each of the greens; hazards that could easily turn birdie into bogey. Learning how to avoid these hazards or at least recover from them is an important element in lowering a golf score.

Hereas where the third chance to lower your score comes in: water and sand trap hazards.
Knowing how to navigate hazards is a skill that quickly can lead to lower scores, and a much more enjoyable time on the course.

David L Baker has no shortage of these hazards, and one can really take advantage of this fact to improve their score and get some much-needed practice in. Watch your score drop as you take advantage of Bakeras natural features to get some practice in and have fun while you do it.