6 Basic Mistakes Amateur Golfers Make Almost Every Round

A golfer teeing up a ball and a golf hole with a red graphic showing where not to hit it.

I've been playing golf for over 20 years so have made more mistakes than I care to remember.

I'm a 6-handicapper so still make plenty of basic and frustrating errors each and every time I play, and even the great Walter Hagen once said he expected to make "at least seven mistakes a round," so they are sadly unavoidable...although some can be minimized.