The key to shooting lower scores should begin with your set make-up. The best way to ascertain your ideal set make-up is to analyze your durabilities and weaknesses. Once you have determined which golf clubs you have trouble hitting, you're on your way to seeing your scores come tumbling down.

Most amateur golfers build their golf sets the traditional way. Driver, three wood, four or five woods, iron sets three to PW, a few sand wedges and a putter. The first step to lower scores is to start thinking in an untraditional way.

Start by absenting all the clubs from your set that you have a hard time hitting on a consistent fundament. For many golfers, it's the fairway woods and long irons. Besides carrying three fairway woods, just keep the one you hit best in the bag. Following, carry off the long irons you fear as soon as you pull them out of the bag. For fairest golfers it's the three and four iron.