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What is the most difficult part of golf?

What is the most difficult part of golf?

  • Driving

    Votes: 16 25.4%

  • Irons

    Votes: 9 14.3%

  • Wedges

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Putting

    Votes: 5 7.9%

  • Other (I'll explain)

    Votes: 30 47.6%
  • Total voters
    63
Canadan said:
current perspective: driver and it's not close lmao

That thing sucks
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He's right ya know.

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To me, it’s the swing. However, I have the most difficulty in hitting irons.
 
jdtox said:
Putting. Should be the easiest and for some of us, particularly me, its the apparently the hardest
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This is exactly what I thinking and going to type.
 
I said other.
The hardest part of golf is the mental aspect of repeating the swing without really thinking about it, the compartmentalizing that activity.
Like Bobby Jones said, "The game of golf is played in the five and half inch space between your ears"
 
jdtox said:
Putting. Should be the easiest and for some of us, particularly me, its the apparently the hardest
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I’m currently living this same nightmare.
 
Imo, once obtained, keeping consistency in one's swing is one of those things in golf that is hard to hold on to. Some days are just better than others.

Swing tempo, timing, balance, club path, aim, alignment, ball position in the stance, and mind set, all need to be on the same page for a golfer to play their best golf. . If not on the same page, at least in the same book.
 
Dan.The.King said:
I voted other. The mental part is the hardest part of golf. Being in the wrong mental state will absolutely screw everything else up.
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Came here to say this and voted the same.
 
For me finding a consistent fairway and hybrid swing has been my biggest challange over the last 12 months
 
I put "Other" because I think the mental part is the most difficult part.

You know you can perform every shot in the bag...and I know physical consistency plays a role too...but if you have your mind in in the right place on the course and understand course management - you can skank it all over the place and still have a decent round.
 
That post said:
Gotcha. Yes that is one of the headrest parts for sure. I've been working on steepening my swing plane a little bit because I'm way too flat. Even moving it a marginally is mountains of work.
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We should hit the range together and watch each others swings - I'm trying to shallow my swing as I come over the top with my driver and longer irons :D
 
It's hard to accept poor shots, and especially poor contact. Even pros have bad shots, sometimes pretty frequently, so that should be all too easy to accept.

But poor contact... wtf? Hitting a shot fat feels worse than a shank for me (I never hit the ball thin. My mishits are inevitably fat, which should give me some clues about how to remedy that). And poor contact on chip shots??? Those are especially hard to accept.

It all should be very easy to accept, as I only play once a week and never practice. But it is not...
 
It's irons for me. Driving the ball has always been a strength and putting over the years has gotten so much better. To me, iron play and hitting good shots into greens is the key to my scoring
 
for me, personally.... driving the ball. I've found it's WAY easier to be a mediocre putter than a mediocre driver of the golf ball. (again, for me)
While i'm no wizard with my iron play.... i've not struggled with it like i did driver.
 
That post said:
In your opinion, what is the most difficult part of golf?

Do not just say "ALL OF IT"

Commit to it and pick something.
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the problem with deleting "all of it" is that is the correct answer for some of us.

There are days I can do anything I want with the driver. I feel like I could pick out a 4 foot patch and put the ball int it. But on that day I am 2-chipping, maybe mixing in a 3-putt here and there. Then the next day the driver won't stay on the planet but I chip in once, 1 putt 4 times and my irons are dialed. Next day driver is here and there, putting is great on front nine and sucks on back nine.

It varies day by day what is the most difficult part so picking one is an exercise in futility.
 
I went other but my training is it’s hard because of consistency. As amateurs it’s tough to be consistent and come close to having a repeatable golf swing. There are a lot of living parts to the swing and those that can find some consistency tend to do better than others
 
The mental side of the game. It's hard. Cause one day, everything clicks, so you think you've got it. Next round, nope, it's gone. How do you handle it? Every shot is different, every swing, every hole, every condition. There is so much going on in your head at times, not to mention what may be going on in your own family, work, etc.
Just like Bobby Jones said "competitive golf is played on a five-in-a-half inch course ... the space between the ears."
 
darthweasel said:
the problem with deleting "all of it" is that is the correct answer for some of us.

There are days I can do anything I want with the driver. I feel like I could pick out a 4 foot patch and put the ball int it. But on that day I am 2-chipping, maybe mixing in a 3-putt here and there. Then the next day the driver won't stay on the planet but I chip in once, 1 putt 4 times and my irons are dialed. Next day driver is here and there, putting is great on front nine and sucks on back nine.

It varies day by day what is the most difficult part so picking one is an exercise in futility.
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Yeah I definitely get that. I think two an extent that's correct. But I think everybody has a unique part that they struggle with a little bit more than others and that's what I'm trying to get at.

It's too easy to say the entirety of golf is hard and all of it is difficult. Even if that is true.
 
Finding a repeatable swing that feels the same, and delivers similar results, from one day to the next.
 
Hitting the ball.
 
That post said:
Nope. This thread is about isolating the single part that's most difficult for you it not vague "golf is hard"
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But for me it is literally hitting the ball (to be more specific hitting the ball consistently over and over again especially my fairway woods and hybrids as I have been able to improve in irons, wedges, and driver at a much better rate

And I jut really like that gif
 
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