What is the most difficult part of golf?
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The golf swing.
Getting my body to do what mind mind is telling it to.
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This is such a tough thing too; We know what we want to do and it's so hard to execute. Has most know I do a lot of video and before reviewing the video I'll think I executed what I expected.
Watch the video back...NOPE.
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The plane of the swing is the hardest part of the game.
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This is what I had in mind when I started the thread but some of the early answers is having me reevaluate.
I agree with @JB
I have a very good friend who is a +3 , one of the top mid-ams i know ....he is also an analytics expert. One day we were talking about angles and etc. I can't remember the details exactly, but he was going through how at his SS (115+) the clubface having just like a degree of difference open v closed, can add 15-20+ yards of left to right miss.
I know this is easy to fathom when you think about it .....but that's how precise you have to be. The difference between right side of the fairway and OB, is barely enough to see with the naked eye on a swing cam.
I have a very good friend who is a +3 , one of the top mid-ams i know ....he is also an analytics expert. One day we were talking about angles and etc. I can't remember the details exactly, but he was going through how at his SS (115+) the clubface having just like a degree of difference open v closed, can add 15-20+ yards of left to right miss.
I know this is easy to fathom when you think about it .....but that's how precise you have to be. The difference between right side of the fairway and OB, is barely enough to see with the naked eye on a swing cam.
I'm going with putting. Driver is the one that is fireworks bad, but putting is the one that is sneaky hard. Driver is painting with a roller, putting is painting with a single hair. Look at the shot scope spider graph thread and I think it's mostly inarguable
I voted other. The mental part is the hardest part of golf. Being in the wrong mental state will absolutely screw everything else up.
For me, it's that moment when the round is done and I rethink some/all of my swings and then have to wait for the next time out to do it all over again.
On the mechanics side, the swing is so much easier if the face is open. The game is also so much harder when the face is open during the swing.
On the mechanics side, the swing is so much easier if the face is open. The game is also so much harder when the face is open during the swing.
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The way I'm thinking about putting is there seems to be more variables with rolling a ball on the ground than there is hitting a ball in the air.
But some others have brought up pretty good points about the faster you swing it the more very small variances in the club face and swing path is going to produce big results.
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Stop it.
Stop it.
One day, it's driver...the next day, it's irons...then it's all kinda okay for a round or two...then it's putting....then back to driver.
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It's driving for me. I've learned to keep the ball on the planet but outside of that, I struggle with consistency and hitting fairways. That's made golf a lot more difficult for me.
gonyr
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Repeating. Why is it so hard to sometimes have a perfect swing, then get it right again just a few minutes later?