How To Break 100: The Complete Guide From Tee to Green
If your target golf score is squarely in the 90s, and you’re ready to put in the work to reach your goal, you’re in the right place. Welcome to GolfLink’s complete guide to breaking 100.
This guide goes beyond a few quick tips that promise to steer you to your best round ever. This thorough lesson plan teaches you the skills you need to break 100 consistently. Like any goal worth achieving, it requires practice, patience, and commitment.
Some of the world’s best golf instructors, including Hank Haney, Mike McGetrick, Jane Blalock, Christopher Toulson, and others, teach you the fundamentals of every shot you need to shoot your target score. Perhaps the best part? This course, including all of the Break 100 Benchmarks, is completely free from start to finish.
How To Break 100
This course includes eight lessons, each lesson builds on the one before it. Each stoke-specific lesson includes video instruction, drills, and specific target benchmarks of a 90s-golfer, so you know exactly what it takes from each aspect of your game to reach your goals. The lessons work their way from the shortest shots, to the longest.
If breaking 100 were easy, it wouldn’t be your goal. With that said, reaching your goal is going to take some commitment and hard work. This page links to each of the eight lessons in this course, provides an overview of each lesson, and gives you the Break 100 Benchmarks for every facet of your game.
Bookmark this page, commit to each lesson, evaluate yourself against the benchmarks, then move on to the next lesson. If you stay true to that commitment, you can say goodbye to those frustrating scores in the 100s, and start playing the best golf of your life.
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Topic |
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Fundamentals: Grip, Posture & Alignment |
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Putting: Distance Control & Green-Reading |
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Chipping |
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Pitch Shots |
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Wedges & Distance Control |
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The Full Swing |
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How To Hit Driver |
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Common Misses & Easy Fixes |
Break 100 Benchmarks
For each shot-specific lesson in our guide to breaking 100, we provide you measurable benchmarks so you can track your progress against your target score. These benchmarks are what players who typically shoot scores in the mid-90s achieve. Once you can consistently hit your benchmarks for each facet of your game, you know your game is good enough to break 100. If you’re close to breaking 100, but struggling to get over the hump, test yourself against these benchmarks to see which facet of your game needs one last push to get you to your goals.
To take full advantage of this course, re-visit lessons and test yourself against your benchmarks in each facet of your game periodically. Hitting your target benchmarks one day is much different than consistently hitting them every time you play. Consistency is the key to shooting lower scores.
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Stat |
Break 100 Target Benchmark |
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Total Putts |
36 or fewer |
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3-Putts |
4 or fewer |
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Make %: 0-2 feet |
85% |
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Make %: 3-5 feet |
40% |
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Make %: 6-9 feet |
25% |
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Up & Down %: inside 25 yards |
20% |
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Up & Down %: 25-50 yards |
10% |
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Proximity: <25 yards |
20 feet |
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Proximity: 25-50 yards |
30 feet |
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Proximity: 50-74 yards |
50 feet |
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Proximity: 75-99 yards |
55 feet |
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Proximity: 100-124 yards |
70 feet |
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Proximity: 125-149 yards |
80 feet |
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Proximity: 150-174 yards |
95 feet |
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Proximity: 175-199 yards |
150 feet |
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Greens Hit: 50-74 yards |
55% |
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Greens Hit: 75-99 yards |
45% |
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Greens Hit: 100-124 yards |
40% |
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Greens Hit: 125-149 yards |
30% |
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Greens Hit: 150-174 yards |
20% |
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Greens Hit: 175-199 yards |
10% |
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Fairways Hit |
40% |
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Penalty Strokes |
4 or fewer |
Lesson 1: Grip, Posture & Alignment
The first step to building the foundation of a consistent, quality golf swing is nailing the fundamentals. Golfers who lack quality or repeatable grip, posture and alignment can’t seem to figure out why they can’t hit repeatable shots, wasting countless strokes in the process.
Start your journey to your best golf ever by learning how to get set up to hit a quality shot every single time you address the ball.
Lesson 2: Putting
As we build on the fundamentals, it’s important to learn how to get the ball in the hole. Golfers are notorious for placing too much blame on their putting performance after a poor round. The fact is, you can average four 3-putts per round and still be right on pace to shoot your target score in the 90s.
Our putting lesson teaches you how to control your speed on the greens, read the break of the green, and forces you to practice hitting those short and mid-range putts under pressure. Once you become a more effective and more confident putter, you’ll see the improvement on your scorecard.
Lesson 3: Chipping
Golfers who shoot in the 90s miss about four out of every five greens. That means that on 80 percent of their holes, they’re trying to get up and down to make par. After gaining confidence in your short and mid-range putting in Lesson 2, we build on that by teaching you how to chip the ball close from 25 yards and in.
By chipping the ball inside 20 feet regularly, you’ll give yourself plenty of high-percentage putts that will lead to lower scores. After you dedicate some practice time to this area of your game, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how many kick-ins you leave yourself, taking pressure off your putter.
Lesson 4: Pitch Shots
To sharpen your game from 25-50 yards, we let Christopher Toulson and Steve Bann teach you a simple and repeatable technique you can use for any pitch shot. By lengthening or shortening your swing, and using different clubs, we give you a shot for every distance inside 50 yards.
Lesson 5: Wedges & Distance Control
We work our way farther from the green and focus on shots between 50 and 100 yards with your wedge swing. Brent Franklin follows the theme of teaching you a repeatable swing and motion that you can use with different clubs and different lengths to give you a shot for every distance.
Once you’re consistently hitting your Break 100 Benchmarks from 100 yards and in, you will notice some serious improvements in your scores.
Lesson 6: The Full Swing
Taking out wedge shots from inside 100 yards and the driver swing, we focus on shots from 100 to 199 yards with your full swing. Now that you have built a strong short game from near the green, there is not as much pressure when you miss a green, because you’re confident you have a good chance of getting the ball close to the hole and making the putt.
To teach you the full swing, we break it down into five checkpoints: the takeaway, top of the backswing, downswing, impact, and the finish. Our full swing lesson gives you simple, digestible checkpoints for each phase so you can build an effective and consistent full swing.
Lesson 7: How to Hit Driver
Swinging driver confidently off the tee is a major factor that differentiates players who shoot in the 80s and 90s, and those shooting scores in the 100s. Christopher Toulson teaches you how your driver swing differs from your normal full swing, and how to swing your driver confidently. To finish it off, Mike LaBauve teaches a technique that will help you hit your driver straighter and longer. When you’re done, you’ll look forward to pulling driver on every tee box and swinging freely.
Lesson 8: Common Misses & Easy Fixes
Our goal is to teach you a golf swing that produces consistent, repeatable and predictable results. Of course, we want those results to be shots that fly long and straight, but it’s OK if they don’t. In our final lesson, our instructors review some of the most common misses in golf, and teach you how to fix them. It’s much easier to correct a consistent miss than it is to fix a golf swing that produces every miss in the book.
Time to Beak 100
This course covers every shot you need, from tee to green to shoot your target score in the 90s, and finally break 100 consistently. If you make the commitment work on the skills taught in each lesson and hit your benchmarks for each stroke before moving to the next, you will be rewarded for your efforts by consistently shooting scores in the 90s. It’s time to break 100. Good luck and enjoy the ride.