A before and after at the Open

[DCgolf]

One thing about pre-round practice vs play: I've NEVER gotten a lie on the course as good as the ones I give myself on the range. On the range, I've always got the ball on a slight little perch. On the course, they are always nestled down tiny bit. For a decent player, this changes your whole "feeling" for angle of attack and shaft lean.

I've understood this basic self-inflicted phenomenon for 20 years. Have I quit trying to perch my ball slightly on the range....of course not.

yep. Theres a lot going on there too. Hitting the ball well is fun, practicing can be a drag...

 

[dschultz6072]

One thing about pre-round practice vs play: I've NEVER gotten a lie on the course as good as the ones I give myself on the range. On the range, I've always got the ball on a slight little perch. On the course, they are always nestled down tiny bit. For a decent player, this changes your whole "feeling" for angle of attack and shaft lean.

I've understood this basic self-inflicted phenomenon for 20 years. Have I quit trying to perch my ball slightly on the range....of course not.

I hit out of other people's screwed up divots and dirt toward the end of the day. At least 80% of my range sessions are this way. 10% mats, the other 10 off decent grass.

 

[fronesis]

One thing about pre-round practice vs play: I've NEVER gotten a lie on the course as good as the ones I give myself on the range. On the range, I've always got the ball on a slight little perch. On the course, they are always nestled down tiny bit. For a decent player, this changes your whole "feeling" for angle of attack and shaft lean.

I've understood this basic self-inflicted phenomenon for 20 years. Have I quit trying to perch my ball slightly on the range....of course not.

The best player I ever played with in high school golf used to hit ALL of his practice balls out of the dirt. He would start with a patch of grass that was all divots, roll a ball into that mess, and then hit the rest of his shots out of the divots he made. They guy had a pretty strong shaft lean and he just always hit the ball first.

 

[Bonesy]

dirt range + fat shots = rocks and dirt in the face = ouch. good motivation to either skip the range or hit good shots. I usually skip the range.

 

[faux_maestro]

I hit out of other people's screwed up divots and dirt toward the end of the day. At least 80% of my range sessions are this way. 10% mats, the other 10 off decent grass.

I do this some too. Another thing I do is I sneak out to a couple of local parks and hit off the turf around the baseball/softball diamonds. Hitting off that turf makes a decently watered course seem like a piece of cake.

 

[Billy McKinney]

if you really want to tear the cover off that mofo, learn to hit out of fairway bunkers or the dirt. maybe hogan also meant this when he said the secret's in the dirt. anyone around here know anything about hogan?

 

[dschultz6072]

I think the resident Hogan guy took off.