Mountain golf
Common Mistakes Golfers Make on Mountain Golf
Avoid the habits that make mountain golf harder than the design intended.
The usual problems
The common mountain golf mistake is trusting flat-course yardages on a mountain tee. For mountain golf, players also forget that lie, wind, speed, or slope can matter more than total yardage. For mountain golf, shorter holes and playful settings are not automatically easy; they simply punish carelessness in different ways.
Better habits
- Walk around the read when mountain golf hides the slope.
- For mountain golf, aim for the wide side until speed feels calibrated.
- For mountain golf, take enough club when imperfect contact is likely.
- For mountain golf, laugh off one bad bounce before it reaches the next swing.