I'm new to the sport. I'm about 3-4 months in. I'm golfing around 95-105 which they say is good for a beginner, but TONIGHT so much just "clicked". I was hoping and praying that a day like this would come where I would just realize alot of the stuff I was doing wrong, and tonight was that night.
I'll try to keep this short, but I spent about 2.5 hours on the range today before I played, and then went out and golfed my best round yet. NOT score wise though. It was a 96...nothing great, but everything felt really good. My front 9 was a 53, but I could just feel things differently and knew I could do better. I then went on to golf a 43 on the back 9 with a quad bogey on 18...otherwise it was pars and bogeys, and it felt like GOLF!
So here's the things that clicked for me tonight...
1. My drives had been TERRIBLE, and tonight i just got it. I realized i was not coming back with the club SHALLOW enough or slow enough. I slowed my backswing WAYYY down, and focused on bringing my driver back low to the ground, and really forcing myself to pop the left hip forward to the target on the downswing. I shot nothing but 225 ft lasers the entire back 9...which is RARE for me. Popping my hips is probably only negating my sway right now, but once I can stop the sway and pop I have no doubt i'll be in the 250-275 range.
2. I stopped thinking about my stupid irons, and just hit the damn ball. I think sometimes I take way TOO much to the ball. Thinking...thinking...thinking...and today I just let my body take over.
3. I got more aggressive with my putting. I noticed the pros are really aggressive, as in they almost never miss short, and aren't scared to blast it past the hole.
4. I used different balls. This might have nothing to do with anything, but I dropped the soft ball. Everyone says beginners should use soft balls, so I've been using Callaway SuperSofts, but I just haven't loved the feel of them. I switched to harder distance balls today, played a Bridgestone e6, Titliest Velocity, and Titliest V1 for most of the day and they felt so much better. They were 3 I had found in my adventures at some point.
Not sure if any of that is helpful to anyone, but figured I'd share my experience...
Can anyone else recall days where this occurred for them? And what they all of sudden just "got"? I just feel like I grasped soooo many things today. Now, who the heck knows if I go back out again and have it together, but tonight was the first night I felt like i was PLAYING GOLF and man was it fun!
I'll try to keep this short, but I spent about 2.5 hours on the range today before I played, and then went out and golfed my best round yet. NOT score wise though. It was a 96...nothing great, but everything felt really good. My front 9 was a 53, but I could just feel things differently and knew I could do better. I then went on to golf a 43 on the back 9 with a quad bogey on 18...otherwise it was pars and bogeys, and it felt like GOLF!
So here's the things that clicked for me tonight...
1. My drives had been TERRIBLE, and tonight i just got it. I realized i was not coming back with the club SHALLOW enough or slow enough. I slowed my backswing WAYYY down, and focused on bringing my driver back low to the ground, and really forcing myself to pop the left hip forward to the target on the downswing. I shot nothing but 225 ft lasers the entire back 9...which is RARE for me. Popping my hips is probably only negating my sway right now, but once I can stop the sway and pop I have no doubt i'll be in the 250-275 range.
2. I stopped thinking about my stupid irons, and just hit the damn ball. I think sometimes I take way TOO much to the ball. Thinking...thinking...thinking...and today I just let my body take over.
3. I got more aggressive with my putting. I noticed the pros are really aggressive, as in they almost never miss short, and aren't scared to blast it past the hole.
4. I used different balls. This might have nothing to do with anything, but I dropped the soft ball. Everyone says beginners should use soft balls, so I've been using Callaway SuperSofts, but I just haven't loved the feel of them. I switched to harder distance balls today, played a Bridgestone e6, Titliest Velocity, and Titliest V1 for most of the day and they felt so much better. They were 3 I had found in my adventures at some point.
Not sure if any of that is helpful to anyone, but figured I'd share my experience...
Can anyone else recall days where this occurred for them? And what they all of sudden just "got"? I just feel like I grasped soooo many things today. Now, who the heck knows if I go back out again and have it together, but tonight was the first night I felt like i was PLAYING GOLF and man was it fun!
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