Recommended for anyone struggling!

[kid2]

Well i have to recommend this book for anyone thats struggling with any part of their game...."Golf is not a game of perfect" by Bob Rotella....

I bought this book 2 years ago and i began reading it again last monday to try and get into my own mind a little....

Today i went out a shot a nett 2 under par...Gross 85....To say im on a high would be an understatement as the past few weeks iv been lying in the buffer withing for a rub of the green....

Well after a shaky start on 1 to 4 i settled down a bit....Standing on the 5th i was 6 over gross but i was confident with the way i was hitting the ball that something had to turn in my favour....Back to back pars on out 5th and 6th par 5's got the ball rolling so to speak(excuse the pun) but a bogie on our par 4 7th after a bad approach with a wedge missed the green brought me down to earth with a bang.....
Shrugged the shoulders puffed out the chest and Parred 8,9,and 10.....A bogie on 11 after a slight push with my drive left me blocked out to the green....

I took a par on our 12th par 5....A hooked 3 wood on our 13th par 3 into cabbage caused a reload which i stuck on the dance floor from 200mtrs...
2 putt DB here and a bogie on 14 but still had the confidence up....I parred 15th par 4 after a great drive and our 16th par 5 put the brakes on me again with a DB 7....I was trying to lay up but pulled my 7 iron after the drive into really high grass on the left of the fairway never to be found.

I bogied 17 a par 3 after my chip left a long putt for par....
So i walked off through to my Nemisis 18th....
I kept faith in my game plan from the first tee.....I was to hit my hybrid here regardless of the score....I didnt know at the time but i was 2 under standing on the 18th for the 3rd week in a row...
Launched the hybrid breeze assisted 210mtrs about 10 mtrs short of the Fairway pot bunker and the OOB on the right...There was a huge sigh of relief...

165 mtrs left to the centre of the green..
I hit a nice smooth 6 iron that bounced hopped and stopped in the right middle part of the green....

2 putts later and iv broke my duck and went on smiling.....

Oh and im also going to S&T after creaming practically every drive i swung at.....
Whatever iv stumbled upon im hitting the driver far better with about a 75/25 split of my weight at address favouring the front foot.:thup::whoo:

Happy Days.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I read it, I have read it at least twice actually.

I found it confirmed things I had been thinking for a long time, brought them to the forefront and made me think about them harder.

It had less of an impact on my game as I had been doing most of the important things before I read the book but it certainly did help me confirm that those thoughts were the right ones for me.

I think most people say it could be summarised in a paragraph but I quite liked the extended paragraphs talking around the subject.

 

[Ethan]

Oh and im also going to S&T after creaming practically every drive i swung at.....
Whatever iv stumbled upon im hitting the driver far better with about a 75/25 split of my weight at address favouring the front foot.:thup::whoo:

Happy Days.

That isn't Stack and Tilt. Stack, maybe, but the tilt part is more difficult.

On Rotella, to paraphrase Mark James, that mental stuff is all well and good but it helps to have a decent golf swing too.

Rotella boils down to hitting one shot at a time and not worrying about the last one or the next one. Which is fine.

 

[kid2]

I read it, I have read it at least twice actually.

I found it confirmed things I had been thinking for a long time, brought them to the forefront and made me think about them harder.

It had less of an impact on my game as I had been doing most of the important things before I read the book but it certainly did help me confirm that those thoughts were the right ones for me.

I think most people say it could be summarised in a paragraph but I quite liked the extended paragraphs talking around the subject.

Ya SB.....I highlighted all the lighter text in the book so i can go back and pick them out when i need to...

Ok im putting this mornings round down to the help of the book but i played a hell of a lot more steadier than i have been....I was ignoring the errant shots and bouncing back from them with Pars....

I was managing my way round the course like knowones business...
I went out with the strategy on the first tee that i wasnt going to keep track of my score only write it in the boxes on the card and that i was going to lay up on all the par 5's and stay away from all the dangerous flags...

Even though my short game is ok i wasnt bothered about missing greens as i was missing them in the safe areas and thats why i parred most of my long par 4's....

If anything it makes you a better thinker than a better golfer i think.

 

[Evesdad]

The book is great but really tells us what we already know but don't do! Play the percentages and take each shot as it comes. Common sense that we all forget at the first tee!

 

[ScienceBoy]

The one thing it did for me was confirm that it was OK to lay up on long or tricky par 4s. Once I started doing that my scores plummeted

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The book does help free up the mind to a degree but you still have to swing it. I fought my swing all day today and hit it poorly in terms of ball striking and yet shot a personal PB of 77. Stupid

 

[kid2]

The book does help free up the mind to a degree but you still have to swing it. I fought my swing all day today and hit it poorly in terms of ball striking and yet shot a personal PB of 77. Stupid

I think that what happened to you today sums up a nice few chapters in the book though Homer....
And the whole point of the book is to free the mind....Thats what causes most peoples problems on the course....Yes you still have to hit the ball but take your instance today or even my own.....If i had thrown the toys out of the pram and started getting cranky after being 6 over after 4 holes then it would have been lights out....

As it stood i just got calmer and more relaxed as the round went on and shot 2 under.....Weird ol game....