One tip that changed your game?

[xreyuk]

Don’t take advice from anyone on how to play a course, practice it and learn it yourself.

You know your own game better, just because the hole ‘isn’t a driver’ hole for them, doesn’t mean it isn’t for you.

I recently joined a new club and was told most of the holes were not driver holes. Well I hit my driver pretty straight and avoid danger, there’s only one hole where I don’t hit driver where I could.

 

[Aussie Swinger]

From my coach, 'You need to have a slightly stronger left hand grip in order to square up the clubface, neutral grip does not work for you.". changed my game and quality of ball striking.

 

[YandaB]

1) that your score is measured in strokes, not whacks, not wellies, not bashes, not knock the living daylights out of it but gentle strokes
2) Open your mouth when swinging, you can’t tense your neck very easily with an open jaw

 

[Sports_Fanatic]

On this, I presume all are aware Nick Dougherty does a tee time tip on Instagram daily - really good stuff. Now been put as a sky show for those wanting to catch up but I pay less attention when they're coming at you in bulk.

 

[User 99]

Never seen the hole come to the ball once.

 

[Liverbirdie]

When things start to go south, sing "Feeling Groovy"

Seriously. It helps.

Is it a one song fits all, or are you better to get custom fitted for it?

 

[virtuocity]

Bogey works.

 

[Roland]

For me this winter it was the feel of the takeaway, a tennis ball between the wrists and the shoulders doing all the turning initially (although the rest of you does start to move). With the driver feel the head swinging down to the ground before swinging up. Less heeled driver shots and 'Sherman tanks' this summer.

 

[GaryK]

As a higher handicapper, if you take 5 strokes per hole, then you've just shot 90.
Undoubtedly I will not always make the par 5's, but 4 on the 3's makes up for that.

A mental tip, but I have found that it has helped me keep my round going.

 

[ScienceBoy]

How can that be the 'one tip that changed your game'??

I don’t think we need to explain our comments here or the thread would be too long. Let’s leave it to just the tips.

 

[Capella]

Is it a one song fits all, or are you better to get custom fitted for it?

Well, you could also try "Don't worry, be happy" or whistle "Always look on the bright side of life", but I found "Feeling groovy" is the one that triggers the least aggression in my playing partners

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Thinking that you can hole any shot from 30 yards in.

 

[hors limite]

Try to grip the club as lightly as you can - loosens up the rest of your swing.

 

[Orikoru]

I don’t think we need to explain our comments here or the thread would be too long. Let’s leave it to just the tips.

It sounded more like a "one tip that changed your slight misapprehension of one particular rule". :lol:

 

[cliveb]

What would Seve do?
Don't.

 

[stefanovic]

No tip can change your game for long. It might work one day but it won't work the next.
The reason is because there are over 200 bones in the human body and over 800 muscles. Together they act like levers and you cannot coordinate them all in the swing.
That's why golf is 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.
There is no right or wrong way to swing a golf club and there are no secrets or magic moves.
Tips are actually your worst enemy as they will dominate your thoughts.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Don't think you need to try and get your irons level at the top of your backswing - someone facing should see your left arm at 10-10:30 of the clock - it might feel like a half-swing - but it's not.

 

[Deleted member 21258]

Always believing the next shot will be your best shot ever.

Just wish I could get my son to think like that, he so often follows one bad shot with the next, due to not having that belief and taking one shot at a time.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Well, you could also try "Don't worry, be happy" or whistle "Always look on the bright side of life", but I found "Feeling groovy" is the one that triggers the least aggression in my playing partners

Funny you say that - but for the last 40 yrs when I find myself getting het up - rushing my shots and rushing between shots - I sing to myself 'Slow down - you move to fast - you got to make the morning last - Just kicking down the cobblestones - Looking for fun and feeling groovy…'

And that slows me down - and calms me down

 

[nowtfancy]

tip - chop its little legs off

song to calm me down/slow tempo down - music to watch girls by