The most ridiculous advice you've heard
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If this advice was referring to what happens in reality,then it is just full of it.A release does happen as well as the roll of the forearms.
If it was based on feel then it is not so ridiculous...at least for some.I make the best and cleanest contact when I feel no release or roll at all at impact and just feel the ball get "collected".Divot starts well past the ball.When I start feeling the release happen I start getting close to fat hits.
I think it's very important when discussing the golf swing to differentiate between feel and real.I keep harking on it but they really are completely different concerning most aspects of the golf swing.
Thats funny!
curtisj76
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Don't buy yellow balls if you have your own range and have to pick them up. I made this mistake. I bought some and the first day I used them there were dandelions everywhere. Good grief!
DeepRedCee
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Lesson with a local Pro
Him - Look you need to stop swinging like Ian Woosnam and start swinging like a modern pro.
Me - Modern Pro?
Him - Yes, look Woosie was a great player but his swing is from a different era, that way of swinging is almost as extinct as the dinosaurs.
Me - But he just won the European Seniors Tour order of Merit.
Him - Sure but they are all Dinosaurs on the Seniors he's just the least worst.
Me - But I am nearly 50, surely it makes more sense to swing like them, not some 25 year old?
Him - Not if you want to improve.
Now he may have a point, I just found it ludicrous to dismiss all older golfers as Dinosaurs.
The game may have changed but I'd imagine most club golfers have more in common with Seniors than current tour players?
Him - Look you need to stop swinging like Ian Woosnam and start swinging like a modern pro.
Me - Modern Pro?
Him - Yes, look Woosie was a great player but his swing is from a different era, that way of swinging is almost as extinct as the dinosaurs.
Me - But he just won the European Seniors Tour order of Merit.
Him - Sure but they are all Dinosaurs on the Seniors he's just the least worst.
Me - But I am nearly 50, surely it makes more sense to swing like them, not some 25 year old?
Him - Not if you want to improve.
Now he may have a point, I just found it ludicrous to dismiss all older golfers as Dinosaurs.
The game may have changed but I'd imagine most club golfers have more in common with Seniors than current tour players?
Richie3Jack
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'Keep Your Head Down.'
Outside of golfers just taking up the game, I believe it's probably the biggest reason why the average score hasn't gone down in 80 years and why only 10% of the golfing population gets lessons.
If I was a golf instructor, particularly at a club with a membership...I would market my debunking of this instruction more than they market the Super Bowl.
3JACK
Outside of golfers just taking up the game, I believe it's probably the biggest reason why the average score hasn't gone down in 80 years and why only 10% of the golfing population gets lessons.
If I was a golf instructor, particularly at a club with a membership...I would market my debunking of this instruction more than they market the Super Bowl.
3JACK
Chip Putterman
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The terms "strong grip" and "weak grip". And "you're gonna get worse before you get better".
I hear this one all the time from friends who have a) taken lessons, or b) self-diagnosed their golf problems.
The pro at a public course I played as a kid offered me some free advice on the range. He believed that the hips and shoulders should be square to the target line at impact and the club is propelled through impact and down the line almost entirely by the right forefinger. According to google, he's still head pro at a local course and presumably still teaching, which is kind of horrifying to me.
cmartingolf
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F'in A.
Ok, so a guy I play with once a week finally had his first lesson in ten years. The takeway message - 1) don't lift your head, and 2) slow down. A double-header!
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aaron_lohan
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Ive always thought Woosnam had a great swing, so simple and effortless at its best, a great long hitter when he was young.
aaron_lohan
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At one lesson i had I hit a perfect shot and the pro said "the key to good golf is just repeating that shot"
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