Physically. We each handle pressure in different ways. I have an extremely intense job. Hitting a good 18th tee to win a comp is completely meaningless to me.
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Physically. We each handle pressure in different ways. I have an extremely intense job. Hitting a good 18th tee to win a comp is completely meaningless to me.
Achilles
Challenge Tour Pro
If you can put it into perspective like that and it works, then good for you. Personally, in that 18th tee position, the desire to win and not cock-up is all that will be on my mind and I won't even think about the insignificance of it in the grand scheme of the universe...might try it though! 
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
I think that it doesn't fit naturally with professional golf either.
Its quite simple, If you hit the ball too hard, you will end up losing accuracy, this leads to you being out of position or in the clag.
You need a balance of power and accuracy and this is different for everybody.
You need to plan your way around the course,avoiding the hazards. Where you want your drive to finish, where do you want the second to end up etc, achieve this regularly and you will be a very good golfer.
Golf is played on the golf course, not the range
Fragger
How hard is too hard? Until you know what you're physically capable of (swing wise), how do you know you're playing to your full potential? Playing lots of rounds of golf on a course will never teach you this because you're always playing within your limits.
Had I taken the advice from this forum I'd have stayed with a driver swing speed of 95mph. Now I average 118mph, which means on the course I can take some off to say 113mph and still feel quite comfortable. How many swings did this take? About 5000. Would I ever have achieved this playing on the course? Never. Ditto for all the other swings (practicing the fades/draws, high/low).
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
And herein lies my issue with your system.
To almost all the golfers on this forum and across the World, hitting a good drive from the 18th to set up a win in a Competition is one of the reasons they play Golf. Not everyone plays just reduce their handicap - lets face it everyone likes to win.
Give any Golfer who has a handicap - and therefore plays competitions - the opportunity to hit a good one off 18 to win and they'll bite your hand off. If that's meaningless to you then you I'm afraid you just don't "get" Golf.
Sorry - I thought the consensus of the forum the other day is that most people play golf for the fresh air and the company. Now you're saying it's to win. If it's to win, why waste time playing competitions when you could be practicing more effectively?
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Read it again
It's ONE of the reasons...
And how do you win Competitions if you don't play them becasue you're practicing..??
bladeplayer
Money List Winner
Because & you will learn tim, nothing on the range can prepare you for the mental side of playing the last when in contention, the person who wins mite not be the best technical golfer , more than likely he will be a decent golfer who handled his nerves well , & the only way to get use to this is playing comps & feeling the mental pressure for real...
RGDave
Money List Winner
I go to the range purely because I love to hit golf balls.
But the range is a place where you have to be strict with yourself. Repeatedly hitting balls tends to defocus you, particularly when you get tired. Personally, I just stop and go do some putting or go home.
Lastly, most people's range game is better than the course game - mine too! There is no substitute for hitting off grass and proper tees....
Good post. Do you go to Broadwater Park?
I must have hit a good few 1,000 there.
Mightymoose
Assistant Pro
Lol
Swinger
Journeyman Pro
Just passing through.
Lol at the Pings with the whippy shafts though.
You should get some X shaftts at least with your swings speeds.
And why not blades?? They would give you even more feed back on those long range sessions instead of 'getting away' with all those mishits.
Lol at the Pings with the whippy shafts though.
You should get some X shaftts at least with your swings speeds.
And why not blades?? They would give you even more feed back on those long range sessions instead of 'getting away' with all those mishits.
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
What about that day in the future when you need a par at the last to finally get your h'cap to zero? Is that meaningless to? With respect Tim, you've never been in a situation where any tee shot means anything to you and until you are in that situation, you have no idea how you will cope.
It's all very well saying there's no point wasting time in comps when you could be practicing but what are you practicing for and how do yo know it is working?
