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9am: 1 basket of balls on the range.
10:30am: chipping and pitching practice on the 9-hole
12:30am: lunch with beer
1pm: 1 basket of balls on the range.
2pm: front 9 holes with putting practice
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What a day! A golfed out day.
 
How do you get "golfed out", without actually playing golf? Hows the practise going? good I hope..going to be course time soon, and a chance to put all that practise to good use.. Am genuinely interested in your approach, and if it works on the course...
 
Very good, thanks. With the long game I do still have a problem with consistency. The majority of shots are very good, but the occasional few miss hits are troubling me. It's caused by me losing spine angle and then thinning or shafting. I really want to sort this problem now (which seems to be the last real stumbling block).

With the short game I've spent recent times mulling over Phil Michelson's Short Game DVD, in which he recommends using nothing but a 60 wedge for most shots. So I've been concentrating on hitting nothing but 60 chips and pitches from differing lies.

Looking forward to HFH.
 
Just interested Tim, would you not be better spending more time on the course when you get days like this than on the range. It sound to me like you already spend a long time hitting balls, surely now you need to start learning to play golf. Not criticising, I'm just a great believer that you will learn more on the course.
 
As you know, I see being on the course (playing 18 holes of proper golf) a complete waste of practice time. What's the point spending 5 hours hitting 80 shots when in the same time I can play 240 long shots, 200 chips and 100 putts?

(And there's always tomorrow).
 
Met your unidentical twin Tomgolfy today. Really mega short of the tee, hits his driver as far as Homer's wedge but thinks that is a complete irrelevance. Instead he spends hour after hour after hour playing crazy/mini golf to zone in his flatstick. Drive for show putt for dough is his motto. Never been on a real course but can ace the windmill every time. :D :D :D
 
As you know, I see being on the course (playing 18 holes of proper golf) a complete waste of practice time. What's the point spending 5 hours hitting 80 shots when in the same time I can play 240 long shots, 200 chips and 100 putts?

(And there's always tomorrow).
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Each to their own but how do you ever expect to get to scratch without actually playing 18 holes? I mean, how do you know what you are practicing? How do you know where your strengths and weaknesses lie? How do you know that you can execute a wedge over water to the final green to setup a birdie to win a match if you don't actually put yourself in the position to find out?

Like I said, not criticising, I just don't understand your philosophy. Good luck though.
 
Forgot to ask, where do you think you are handicap wise if you were to put your cards in tomorrow and how long do you think it will be before you think you are ready?
 
you confuse me tim..
after all your threads i just dont get why you think the range is as good practice as the real course?
i mean if i go wrong on the course i make sure my next shot gets me out of the situation and when i get that shot again i realise what ive got to do.

dont get me wrong the range is good but, not the real thing therefore you will never have the right confidence if you hardly play on the course.
 
I am also interested in where you think your handicap would be. I have had a long lay off, and have only recently started playing again (March). Am planning to put my cards in at the end of May, but I already know that the handicap will be around the 12-14 mark. The reason I know this is that I have played numerous times recently and have aggregated the scores. The one thing that I have really paid attention to is course management. Today for example, I was playing fairly poorly from the tee box, but was nailing the approach shots from 170 in. So for the back 9 I clubbed down to the 17* hybrid for more forgiveness. Result, 2 over for the back 9, including a birdie on a par 5. HItting great shots at the range is fantastic, learning when to hit those shots is a different skill entirely...Hope this helps..
 
The best place to learn to hit a golf ball is the Driving Range.

The best place to learn to score is the course.

Not sure what is so hard to understand about that.

He wants to learn to hit the thing properly and a fair distance before he takes it on the course and learns to score.

Seems good to me.
 
As you know, I see being on the course (playing 18 holes of proper golf) a complete waste of practice time. What's the point spending 5 hours hitting 80 shots when in the same time I can play 240 long shots, 200 chips and 100 putts?

(And there's always tomorrow).
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So why do you practice....?????
I see 5 hours practice as a waste of golfing time.

How often do you practice a tough lie in the rough with a bunker to carry to a tight pin position, knowing you need to get up'n'down to stay in the match?
If this is your idea of Golf then good luck to you.
Golf is played on grass.
 
I don't know exactly what the handicap would be. Is it normally a couple of shots lower than your best score? This is my score from last week, hitting +13. Given all the practice I was quite poor off the tee (wasting 4 shots), spent 2 shots in a bunker). Weakest part of the game was the judgement of distance for pitches (ie. the short/approach game).

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