Golburn100
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That is really sad. A solid pre-shot routine is key though.
Oh my word
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I used to play regular with a scratch golfer and he had a mat in his garden and placed on the mat was almost exactly the same as that.
More pre flight checks than a pilot!
Oh and he was so chuffing boring on the course. Way over the top.
williamalex1
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A earlier this year in a away open comp a guy in my 3ball had 18 sheets of A4 paper , with all the yardages and info for each hole. Did him no good at all, he duffed all the way round.
HawkeyeMS
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No it isn't
ArnoldArmChewer
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Perhaps the person is a method actor ?
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richy
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Yes it is
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Foxholer
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While I don't believe there's a need for one like that in the link, all the evidence I've observed indicates that some sort of pre-shot routine helps.
So I'd call B/S on that statement! At least, if you want to optimise your scoring!
HawkeyeMS
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So you walk up to a ball (might not even be yours!), pick a club at random and give it a whack?
Anything else constitutes a pre-shot routine!
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Put the ball on a tee in the ground take your stance then hit it
Walk up to the ball - check distance pick club take your stance then hit it
Walk up to the ball on the green mark it repair pitch marks place ball back on marker line up putt take stance and hit it
Repeat until the game is finished
That's what would make the game so much more quicker instead of these countless routines
Unless you can show proof that a pre shot routine makes you score better
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I wouldnt class them as pre shot routines - but can see why people would
HawkeyeMS
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No it doesn't. In the not so distant past, before psychologists and pros started referring to this magical "pre-shot routine" (which incidentally I hadn't heard of 5 years ago) that we should all have we still had to do a certain things like pick a line, get a yardage, pick a club (identify our ball), once we'd done that we hit it, these are the basic elements of hitting a golf shot that we have always done but aren't what I would describe as a "pre-shot routine".
A pre-shot routine is all the nonsense that we are being told we have to do outside of the essentials that people repeat to the letter before every shot, things like; stand behind the ball and visualize the shot, take exactly 2 practice swings before every shot, grip the club with the same hand first, take a deep breath or whatever other nonsense people decide to do that has absolutely nothing to do with hitting the actual shot and more often than not does nothing more than waste time.
G1BB0
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I visualise the shot every time, the trouble is its always correct aswell... a 20 yard duff 
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That's my feelings exactly.
Sometimes I might have a bit of waft of the club sometimes I won't sometimes I just walk up to the ball pick a club and then hit it
There is no set routine - it's the mind numbing set routines that slow the game of golf up
It's the people that sing old mac Donald's farm then blowing their nose twice before each shot that are causing slow play on the golf course
Robobum
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This could turn in to an epic length thread - a pedant vs a dog with a bone!!!
Let battle commence
Let battle commence
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