Searching for a Golf method?

Liverpoolphil said:
I do indeed - during roll ups or swindles during the mornings in the week

This week i tried a new putter

Last week i just tweaked my bunker shots little

etc etc
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Scary! Presumably a continuous series of tweaks rather than a 'major' change.

Using different Putters doesn't count. There was a time when I was playing every day but never used the same putter more than 2 days in a row, for over a month - and only use any putter for 2 days in the month!

Liverpoolphil said:
Lost on me - havent got the first clue about it :D
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THFT! :rofl:
 
I have recently lost my swing. I had a half hour lesson with our new club pro, he told me that I was too disconnected on the downswing and how to correct that, I popped to the range so I could hit as many balls as needed to get used to his changes, 6 swings later I was nutting them - I'd say a lesson with the pro pays as I'd never had spotted the fault myself!
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Going round in circles (not for the first time when you get involved in a thread). In simple terms I prefer the so called comfort blanket of a teaching pro showing me what to do. You preferred to learn via video and literature and made good progress so fair play. As for me, like Aimpoint, New Golf thinking etc I'm happy to plough my own furrow and do it my way. I think I've explained my position but no doubt you'll come back for the final word and pick another hole (or want some form of verification). Nuff said on the subject by me I think
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The problem in self teaching is that how do you get verification that what you are watching and what you are doing are the same? Golf has so many intricate moves that exaggerate one you compensate with another and unless you know what your looking at and got an excellent understanding of the swing, how, if the results are not showing, do you fix it? By a You Tube video, if you do this, try this?

I had had a lesson today and thought I was a good ball striker, but nothing compared to how I struck it today and the main issues was the right shoulder was not coming over the top, sort of motion, creating the lag and straightening my left leg and clearing the hips.

I wouldnt of got there without the eye of someone who has years of watching golf swings and teaching.
 
Foxholer said:
Scary! Presumably a continuous series of tweaks rather than a 'major' change.

Using different Putters doesn't count. There was a time when I was playing every day but never used the same putter more than 2 days in a row, for over a month - and only use any putter for 2 days in the month!



THFT! :rofl:
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Mainly small tweaks - had my major changes about 2/3 years ( and was painful on the course at times )
 
3565 said:
The problem in self teaching is that how do you get verification that what you are watching and what you are doing are the same? Golf has so many intricate moves that exaggerate one you compensate with another and unless you know what your looking at and got an excellent understanding of the swing, how, if the results are not showing, do you fix it? By a You Tube video, if you do this, try this?

I had had a lesson today and thought I was a good ball striker, but nothing compared to how I struck it today and the main issues was the right shoulder was not coming over the top, sort of motion, creating the lag and straightening my left leg and clearing the hips.

I wouldnt of got there without the eye of someone who has years of watching golf swings and teaching.
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Surely the verification is where the ball is going ? how it feels , the results that you get. There are many swings out there that will have so many different movements that a pro would say is wrong etc - but the ball goes into the area you want it to go.
 
richart said:
You may well ask. I think Charlie Wie is the highest ranked player followed by JustOne.:whistle::)
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Aaron Baddeley was something of the poster boy for a while I believe - and won twice with it on the PGA Tour. Has returned to a 'conventional' swing after returning to an earlier coach.

Many Pros now use elements of S&T without using all its elements - primarily the 'staying centred' concept that it stressed.
 
Foxholer said:
Aaron Baddeley was something of the poster boy for a while I believe - and won twice with it on the PGA Tour. Has returned to a 'conventional' swing after returning to an earlier coach.

Many Pros now use elements of S&T without using all its elements - primarily the 'staying centred' concept that it stressed.
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Sean Foley ? Was that the coach who taught it ?
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Sean Foley ? Was that the coach who taught it ?
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Mike Plummer and Andy Bennett.

Foley is definitely a 'stay centred' guy though. Lots of similarities. Foley teaches a form of S&T but states only 5% of his 'method' came from it. Both schools drew from earlier players/coaches anyway.
 
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Liverpoolphil said:
All double dutch to me
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Think 'don't sway' - and the reasons why swaying is bad! Then take it a step further to 'don't shift the weight backwards, then forwards' - for the same reasons.

Best you ignore it - and keep doing what you are doing - anyway as your results seem fine without it! And it's a seriously large change - that needs practice to implement, so almost certainly not for you anyway (unless that was your big change a couple of years ago)! :whistle:
 
Foxholer said:
Think 'don't sway' - and the reasons why swaying is bad! Then take it a step further to 'don't shift the weight backwards, then forwards' - for the same reasons.

Best you ignore it - and keep doing what you are doing - anyway as your results seem fine without it! And it's a seriously large change - that needs practice to implement, so almost certainly not for you anyway (unless that was your big change a couple of years ago)! :whistle:
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Seems like far too much thinking !
 
'Far too much thinking' is not necessarily a bad thing!

Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, Da Vinci, Newton, Pasteur, Watt, Babbage, Bell, Tesla, Einstein, Brunel, Fleming, Turing, Shakespeare, Dickens, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky all did 'far too much thinking'!
 
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Foxholer said:
'Far too much thinking' is not necessarily a bad thing!

Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, Da Vinci, Newton, Pasteur, Watt, Babbage, Bell, Tesla, Einstein, Brunel, Fleming, Turing, Shakespeare, Dickens, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky all did 'far too much thinking'!
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Yes, but not one of them ever to to No 1 in the world rankings.
 
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