uitar99
Well-known member
Hi S. I'm no teacher or pro but a couple things have helped me get that HCP from a 25 to a 18:
-Golf is hard. Tiny little ball, small hitting surface, mostly uneven ground...I gotta give myself a break
-Setup, Grip, stance, posture, ball position-figure out where each club bottoms out...for you
-Slo motion swinging with no ball-I try to do 60-75 two or three times a week. Helps you concentrate on the swing. Get a mirror if possible. Very humbling, lol. You don't have to worry about the outcome.
-At a range-don't just beat balls while working through the clubs in your bag...I used to hit a club until I hit a good one, then change club...felt like I had it down. On the course it was still shite. Started just hitting too targets. Over time used all my irons and wedges to the same targets. That forced me to figure out what to do with each club for that distance. Sort of like ball...you figured out how to hit to open spots in the outfield based on how they defended against you
-Get yourself some type of measuring device (GPS watch, whatever) and figure out your distances per club. They'll improve with time, but at least you'll know what club you "should"use.
-For us high cappers, birdies will not help us as much as reducing doubles and triples. Don't follow a bad shot (we all have them) with a stupid shot. If you can't make a shot 75% of the time...don't play the hero shot
-Work on one thing at a time-otherwise you'll never know if that one change is working, or not.
-Don't lose that speed...distance is important
Go talk to one of those pros in Prague, they might be the golf human who can help you. Worse case, you take a lesson and find you don't care for them and stop...or...maybe they are a div 2 or 3 from the states, a great person who can help your golf game and you make a golf friend for life.
-Golf is hard. Tiny little ball, small hitting surface, mostly uneven ground...I gotta give myself a break
-Setup, Grip, stance, posture, ball position-figure out where each club bottoms out...for you
-Slo motion swinging with no ball-I try to do 60-75 two or three times a week. Helps you concentrate on the swing. Get a mirror if possible. Very humbling, lol. You don't have to worry about the outcome.
-At a range-don't just beat balls while working through the clubs in your bag...I used to hit a club until I hit a good one, then change club...felt like I had it down. On the course it was still shite. Started just hitting too targets. Over time used all my irons and wedges to the same targets. That forced me to figure out what to do with each club for that distance. Sort of like ball...you figured out how to hit to open spots in the outfield based on how they defended against you
-Get yourself some type of measuring device (GPS watch, whatever) and figure out your distances per club. They'll improve with time, but at least you'll know what club you "should"use.
-For us high cappers, birdies will not help us as much as reducing doubles and triples. Don't follow a bad shot (we all have them) with a stupid shot. If you can't make a shot 75% of the time...don't play the hero shot
-Work on one thing at a time-otherwise you'll never know if that one change is working, or not.
-Don't lose that speed...distance is important
Go talk to one of those pros in Prague, they might be the golf human who can help you. Worse case, you take a lesson and find you don't care for them and stop...or...maybe they are a div 2 or 3 from the states, a great person who can help your golf game and you make a golf friend for life.