Are golf and tennis incompatible?

[iku]

I've noticed that since I started to play golf my tennis got worse. Surely I spend more time practicing golf than tennis now and this must have affected my tennis but in general I've noticed a lack of feel and control with the racket.

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[patricks148]

Can’t comment on Tennis but my cricket did effect my golf when I first started. I was a very correct batman, and of course a good player of the checked drive. Trouble is a checked drive with a driver is not so good, massive slice.

Gave up Cricket a few years ago when my wife wanted to move back to Inverness, so don’t know what effect golf would have had on the cricket???

 

[Bratty]

I would imagine it'll be to do with different wrist movement?

A lot of cricketers find similar problems (posted before seeing Patricks148's post).

Not to say you can't be good at both, but it may take a while to get the hang of forcing the body's transitioning between sports.

 

[richart]

I play both without any problems, but I do slice all my tennis shots, as well as my golf ones.