Focus on 100 and in during your lesson. If you learn some technique for half and 3/4 shots your consistency will improve greatly. Anything you work on will also help your full swing down the road.
I think something your instructor will hammer home is length of swing controls your distance inside 100 and putting. Make the proper length of swing that allows you to accelerate and finish aggressively to achieve the desired distance.
I mean my putting is awful. People see me play and warmup then protest that i want 17 strokes if we are betting. i have to convince them how bad my short game is then it mind fucks me around the greens if I play a little better.
My buddy says my biggest problem all around is deceleration. I think I'm trying to achieve a consistent and smooth swing and it causes problems.
2 of the easiest ways you'll get scores down... 1. Putting - Get yourself a putting mirror and see if your eyes are actually over the ball. This fixes most issues I've had with my putting. When my eyes are over the ball, I putt well. When they arent, I dont. Then practice. A lot. 2. Short game - Learn to hit a 100 yard shot. Sounds simple but if a drive goes wayward (or on par 5s) it's a stroke saver. Being able to get down in 3 from 100 yards is a huge stroke saver. At your level, turning 7s and 8s into 5s is where you'll save most strokes - Pitching, chipping, bunker play. Learn the shots. Practice them constantly At the end of the day, practice is the answer. But I would specifically practice the above.
Do you have a consistent preshot routine when you putt? If not, develop one. If you are coordinated and athletic, you should be able to improve that area rapidly.
If your putting is really that awful, it's likely a distance control issue more than anything. I'm a feel player so when my distance control goes haywire, it's really about getting as many practice reps as possible to get my feel back.
Sort of. Its just kind of hard not to have a negative approach when I know I really don't even have the fundamentals down. i like to practice swing/putt behind the ball at a 90 degree angle to my shot and then kind of picture what it is Im trying to do.
Obviously from a 100 yards in and improving the flat stick will drastically improve your scores (as everyone has mentioned). I still think the fastest, and easiest, way to improve scoring is to learn to think your way around the course. Decent course management will improve other areas of your game by default.
That's all well and good as long as you have a pretty good idea where your ball is going to end up after each shot because you have a consistent swing and make good contact every time. Thinking your way around the course isn't going to do shit for you when you duff the ball 30 yards. It isn't going to really help you if your swing can make the ball either end up 30 yards left OR right of your target.
Basic stuff like playing a hole backwards. A lot of guys who have 270 left are going to hit their longest club (which is also the hardest to hit). Worst case you duff it and still have 200+ left or hit it into a hazard. Best case you have an awkward 30-40 yard shot you don't know how to hit. If they had hit 2 9 irons they are going to be on or near the green in 2 much more consistently. It is playing to your strengths and trying to avoid the big number.
A guy who shoots 120 could shave strokes by understanding that he's terrible and accepting it. It just takes knowing what you can't do. Not to mention he said he has played decent in the past and is capable of at least bogey golf. Arrogance/pride can lead to a shit ton of lost shots on the course. Being an idiot on the course has cost me a lot more opportunities than ball striking.
Working for a big Hyundai Dealership, we usually get free tickets to these. Could never justify the trip to Hawaii money wise, but maybe this.
Usually some sort of VIP, trust me, ill be using them. The cool thing in Hawaii was that 2 people walked inside the ropes with each group.
I'll guess Jordan's & Rory's were the same and Rickies was slightly less. I base this off absolutely no real knowledge
Feel kind of bad for Weir. Seemed like a solid guy who suffered injury and lost his game as a result. Plus, it always made me laugh when he was in contention and the announcers would repeatedly say his name. "My queer from 165 yards out."
Spieth got a time warning for standing over a putt too long. One more and he gets fine by the Euro Tour. On one hand, his playing partners even said he wasn't delaying anyone. The group behind them hadn't even gotten to their balls in the fairway by the time they left the green. On the other hand, this isn't the first time he's been called out overseas for slow play. R&A explicitly cited him as a slow player during the Open Championship when they pushed their new rule. Interested to see how this goes knowing he's playing Euro Tour events more regularly moving forward.
The new iteration of the rule just went into effect yesterday for the first time. Everyone is saying that the Euro Tour was just trying to send a message and they picked the #1 player in the world to do it. As Irish said, Rory, Rickie and all the journalists covering the group said that Jordan wasn't causing them any sort of loss on keeping up with the group in front of them. The Tour just decided to send the message. The new Euro Tour rule is once a group is put "on the clock" then they have an official that stays with them for the sole reason of timing how long they are each taking. If an infraction at that point is determined then the player is fined $2,800. Obviously to guys like the 3 in that group that doesn't hurt them one bit. However, $2,800 is still a lot to some of the guys who are just starting out in that level of golf.
Love when Rory is playing well. Really hope him and Spieth are the next big rivalry No Laying Up @NoLayingUp "Just swipe right. All of them."
To go a step further, I believe I heard them say on Morning Drive that when they are on the clock, they have 40 seconds to take their shot, but it's pretty ambiguous on when exactly the clock starts
We are 21 days into this new year and I've yet to hit a single golf shot. This must be what it is like to be gritzy . I don't want to know this hell any longer.
I assume you don't live "north"? Anyway, welcome to life as a golfer like a large chunk of Americans are used to. January is easy, we're only a little over a month removed from the last time we could play and there is football on during every weekend to occupy some of the time. February is where it gets brutal and is the worst fucking month of the year. Football is over, you're now MONTHS removed from your last round. It's cold as a motherfucker out and the only sporting event that interests me (not a CBB, NBA, or NHL fan) that is in season is golf which just makes you realize how much you miss playing it even more!!! Fuck February.
I'm in year round golf territory. Except not when there are hard freezes followed by all day rainathons. It's been a pretty ridiculous start to the year weather wise. Aerial footage of the Robert Trent Jones course in Prattville shortly after Christmas when it rained like a mf'er.
Extravagant life is nice and all but he still wakes up next to this wildebeest every morning. I'm sure she has a great personality.
Finally getting out of the snow this next week but think 50s is still way too cold for me to tee it up
Lesson was great and really encouraging. He told me I already have the swing and tools to be a 5 hcp. Ive been releasing the club on my down swing instead of keeping my hands in front of the ball on impact. He said if I can fix that i basically have my swing down. Plane is good, grip is good, address is good, weight transfer is good. Im pretty pumped. Any input on how to fix what Im doing?
I'm thinking about getting a SkyTrak and building a simulator setup, anyone have any experience with them?