How to improve your golf game in 15 steps

Simon Lewis urges you to forget the excuses and get golfing this year.

1. Set Yourself A Challenge

You don’t have to be world number one Rory McIlroy killing time in first class to set yourself some motivational goals. The four-time Major winner revealed last week he always writes down his ambitions and objectives for the year ahead on the back of a boarding card en route to his first tournament of the season. Your golfing goals for 2015 may not feature a green jacket from Augusta National but any challenge is a motivating factor to improve your game, doubly so if you set yourself a date to achieve it by. Whether your objective is lowering a handicap, winning a tournament or mastering the hole that gets you every time, whatever it is, it will get you out on the golf course an awful lot more this year.