Keep it simple guys

[Hunka Turf]

Hunka Turf.

That argument does not stack up. If you are a Cat 1 golfer then you are in the top 2% (or something like that anyway) of golfers in the world so you can say for every player off 2, there are loads of golfers who are not and the argument fits just about any golfing comparison you can choose.

Snelly I'm struggling to follow your point?!

 

[SocketRocket]

Not sure I quite agree with you JO. I think it depends on the person and their learning style. You can improve by just hitting balls and zero technical knowledge in my view. I know people that have learned this way and they are very good players too. Technical and detailed suits some but is useless to others. I can play quite well on my day and I know nowt on golf mechanics. Others could not function without thinking about it from a technical perspective.

If you hit enough balls, you will improve, of this there is no doubt. Golf is the same as any sport. Tennis - have a very basic understanding of grip, stance and swing tempo and then hit 100,000 forehands - you will have a good forehand. With golf, understand tempo, alignment and grip then play 5,000 rounds. You will be a good player in the end.

I remember I once had a nasty outbreak of the Shermans so I went to the range every evening for a week hitting balls to try and sort it out. At the end of the week I could shank a ball to perfection every time.

Repeating a fault many times tends to groove the fault and make it worse. You need to understand why the fault is hapening, what to do to remedy it and then groove that by practice. IMHO.

 

[Davey247]

A quote from Terry Venables - relating to football, but relevant for golf...

"Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent"

To back up SocketRocket, if your practicing the wrong things you'll continue doing the wrong things.

Best thing is to have a few lessons to get an expert and outside opinion on your swing and the pro will give to you the right things to practice and make you aware of your bad habits so you can work them out of your game.