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DG_1234;n8886301 said:Mostly the culprit is grip technique. I can't say I've ever come across a player with a fundamentally sound grip who did not strike beautiful golf shots. The late great player and teacher Tommy Armour said he wanted 6 months to teach a student the grip.Most of the today's "instructors" don't spend even 2 minutes teaching the grip. Big difference . And if you ask the average high handicap about the grip they will likely say "my grip is fine". So, I think more than anything else faulty grip technique is what causes high handicap players to remain so..
Really? I only wish with and bet everything I got that it was that simple. With due respect to you.....the notion that most anyone can be very good at ball striking (im not even talking excellent as you put it) but just consistently good at it where as they are getting from tees to greens consistently well is just very far from only being about grip and fundamentals.
Certainly many amateurs do lack the fundamentals and is their big flaw. But there are a whole entire world of amateurs who don't and still cant maintain a good consistent ball striking tee to green on a regular basis. Your just flat out wrong if you believe its that simple for most anyone. And many better players of the game say similar to you and they are also wrong. There are very many people who learned and do posses sound fundamentals yet still far lack in consistency.
If all it was for most of us was simply fundamentals there would be so many more low cappers than there currently is. One can be taught well and know very well how to do it but even do it many times. But the act of being consistent at doing it regularly is another story. The notion is very wrong to be applied to most anyone. Its just not the case. In fact (I know you don't mean it this way of course) but its almost insulting because of what I been through. You know the time and money and efforts I could have saved if it was as simple as only grip or basic fundamentals? Trust me that is far from anything that simple for so very many.