Golf Golf technique

[sideswipe]

I've been getting hammered with this ad, could probably use it to help eliminate my over the top club path and subsequent slices but I figured I would try and mimic the movement myself at the range and see how I go.

Not sure I want to start going down the aid rabbit hole just yet.

I’d be getting a lesson before jumping onto something that might alter your swing.

After all, Golden Bear had a flying right elbow!

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

I’ve decided this weekend I’m just going to hit the f*****g ball!
Try the Dustin Johnson method.
“What goes through your mind when you’re playing a shot?”……. “ Nothing”

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Lesson completed on short game. Building confidence and getting there. Hitting plenty of good ones with the odd bad one still. Working on getting softer hands, slight tweak in set up playing more off front foot. Biggest issue is using more body and less arms. More wrist **** for bunkers.

 

[Pres]

Lesson completed on short game. Building confidence and getting there. Hitting plenty of good ones with the odd bad one still. Working on getting softer hands, slight tweak in set up playing more off front foot. Biggest issue is using more body and less arms. More wrist **** for bunkers.

What club does your pro advocate chipping with and for bunker play? 54 or 60?

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

What club does your pro advocate chipping with and for bunker play? 54 or 60?

Definitely not that chipper I bought! haha. (which I don't use anyway)

He was getting me chipping in front of a raised green to a close pin from quite close. It was a 60 shot all day long. I used the 54 towards the end but it was the wrong club and most were 3 foot past or a bit more. He really liked the 60 Mizuno 24 with the graphite shaft (and some lead tape on it).

Two biggest mistakes I have is grip tension...(pretty hard to have very soft hands when you have had anxiety issues all your life...I fight that through every shot I play) and the need to use body way more to finish facing target a bit more (and hands finishing close to mt left hip pocket). Let the body hit it. I was a bit outside and cutting across it too much which we addressed. With my old handsy chip I go through stages where it works quite well....but then I lose it and blade it or chunk it. He says I do not have yips just lost confidence in myself and technique and grip tension were the cause of the bad ones.

Didn't get time to do bunkers but chatted to him about the troubles I have with lots of sand in the bunkers...and them being wet from sprinklers around green complexes atm. He said to still open the face a bit but be quite steep coming into the ball. I just kind of did a swing where we were chipping and he said that I need more wrist **** which does feel different...so next bunker shots might be different!

Also talked to him on his thoughts about how bad the bunkers are on publics especially late in the day and his advice was don't put social cards in but play preferred lies when you cop bad lies due to golfers disrespect for others. That is what they do when playing with mates socially.

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

Found a book we all should read….

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

I skipped straight to chapter 15

 

[Planet14]

I wrote that chapter.

 

[Bicco]

Currently hitting the ball in that way in which you hope it will last forever. But you know it won't. 380m par 4, driver/9i. Short 420m par 5, driver/6i.
Just need to keep my biggest mental problem in check.... over confidence. Like when I have 138m to the pin, do I hit an 8i or a low 7i with a draw into the wind?? Should I hit 2i off the tee on a dogleg par 4 or try and cut a driver around the corner?
I really need a caddie some times.

 

[Pres]

Went and had a lesson tonight. Long overdue. All of my takeaway, pivot and return path to the ball were absolutely cactus. It was tough to watch.

Luckily my chipping was pretty decent. Averaging ~2700rpm with a 15-16yo Vokey Spin Milled CC 60 deg wedge.

 

[Chadwiko]

Went and had a lesson tonight. Long overdue. All of my takeaway, pivot and return path to the ball were absolutely cactus. It was tough to watch.

Luckily my chipping was pretty decent. Averaging ~2700rpm with a 15-16yo Vokey Spin Milled CC 60 deg wedge.

Who did you work with, if you don't mind my curiosity?

 

[Pres]

Who did you work with, if you don't mind my curiosity?

I go to my mate in the SE suburbs. Ex-PGA teaching pro now working in a different industry but retained his membership. Been going to the one coach for ~18 years now.

We do all lessons indoor on a simulator using Trackman. I would once never have believed in this approach but have been doing it for a few years and the results have been terrific.

 

[sideswipe]

I go to my mate in the SE suburbs. Ex-PGA teaching pro now working in a different industry but retained his membership. Been going to the one coach for ~18 years now.

We do all lessons indoor on a simulator using Trackman. I would once never have believed in this approach but have been doing it for a few years and the results have been terrific.

It's certainly the answer to working on technique. Even if the reality of the numbers sometimes hurts.

 

[Theseventhhamster]

I spent half an hour with a pro from MGA 4 weeks ago and came out a bit underwhelmed when it was not much more than keeping the club outside on the first half of the back swing but it's been magic

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Def wasted a lot of my time not seeking outside opinion earlier.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

I went to the range the other day and I was working on my Driver. I have been hitting the ball low for some time and in my mind it was due to my declining club head speed.

Towards the end of the session I tried keep in my head further back...over my right foot until impact really focusing on it and bingo my old shot came back hitting 10 to 20m further with a much more normal peak height.

I have had my coach (at MGA) point out my head was to far forward at impact (I think my left ear level with ball at impact is good) at some point ages ago.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I’ve often wondered if lessons would reduce my handicap in any meaningful way or do more harm than good.

 

[Bicco]

I’ve often wondered if lessons would reduce my handicap in any meaningful way or do more harm than good.

It's a good question .
IMO if you want to improve generally then you need a lot of lessons over a long period. Like 2 per month for 6 months +. A burst of 3 lessons will do nothing, Could even make you worse.
But if you just want to learn a shot, say a long bunker shot, then a couple of lessons will do.
I think a lot of golfers who have played the game for a while, often buy a 5 lesson package, then try to fit too much into that without significantly changing anything.

 

[sideswipe]

It's a good question .
IMO if you want to improve generally then you need a lot of lessons over a long period. Like 2 per month for 6 months +. A burst of 3 lessons will do nothing, Could even make you worse.
But if you just want to learn a shot, say a long bunker shot, then a couple of lessons will do.
I think a lot of golfers who have played the game for a while, often buy a 5 lesson package, then try to fit too much into that without significantly changing anything.

Agree - but it’s no point doing lots of lessons to say commit to a swing change - without committing to practice.

I could definitely benefit from a lesson on how to avoid doing stupid things on course. That might require a lobotomy.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

It's a good question .
IMO if you want to improve generally then you need a lot of lessons over a long period. Like 2 per month for 6 months +. A burst of 3 lessons will do nothing, Could even make you worse.
But if you just want to learn a shot, say a long bunker shot, then a couple of lessons will do.
I think a lot of golfers who have played the game for a while, often buy a 5 lesson package, then try to fit too much into that without significantly changing anything.

Id say with that commitment I’d maybe drop two shots, going from 4 to 2. That isn’t going to make any sort of dent in my enjoyment.

I’ve managed to get down to 3.4 without ever having a lesson.

 

[sideswipe]

Id say with that commitment I’d maybe drop two shots, going from 4 to 2. That isn’t going to make any sort of dent in my enjoyment.

I’ve managed to get down to 3.4 without ever having a lesson.

I want you to get lessons that make you worse

 

[Theseventhhamster]

I’ve often wondered if lessons would reduce my handicap in any meaningful way or do more harm than good.

I've lost 4 shots from 20 to 16 in about 6 weeks largely I reckon due to a lesson I got. Feels like I have another few shots to go as well. Wish I'd done it earlier.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

I have had many over my journey...but 2 were fantastic and they were not swing lessons. I had one from a lady pro...Michelle ? at MGA many years ago on putting. Just really was anchoring my elbows onto my side...or ribs and rocking shoulders. Putt pretty well mostly nowadays. The other was a recent one on my chipping and has given me a lot more confidence. Mostly in believing in myself and chipping without any tension.