Provisional Just barely missing greens can really be a killer. Hitting "good" shots, but not quite good enough; maybe slightly pulled or with a slight fade that the wind takes off the green, etc. The worst is when you end up short-sided from something like that.
I'm working hard on pretty much always aiming at the middle of the green, both side-to-side and front-to-back, regardless of pin position, except that I take one more club when the pin is way back. I generally don't take one less when the pin is in front, because most of us miss more greens short than long, and I'd rather have a 25-foot putt from the center of the green to the front pin position than to have a tough chip from 20 feet short of the green with very little green to work with.
Goal is to increase actual "GIRs." Had 4 on my last 9-hole outing (day before yesterday), which is actually an improvement. If I can get 8 greens in an 18-hole round, I'll likely be in the high 70s to low 80s, because I get up and down a lot and I rarely 3-putt.
It's an ongoing quest, though.
