The power of lessons

[Stub]

Was playing quite well, by my standards, until the snow came and combined with a virus to give me 2 to 3 weeks off.

On playing again I had gone backwards and was very frustrated but, being in the middle of a series of lessons with our club pro kept at it. After being consistently under 100 I had gone back to 100+ scoring.

Yesterday played in a weekly roll-up. Took 10 on the par 5 first and threatened to go home, go back to bed and get up again to start afresh, topped and sliced my way from tee to green. Scrambled a 4 on the par 3 second then played bogey golf for most of the front 9 to end with 48 (including the 10).

Then went mad on the back 9 taking 43 including a birdie and 3 pars. Total for round 91 - a personal best. My ball striking and short game vastly better.

Just goes to show that persisting with good tuition even when things are not going well pays off eventually.

Got to go - next lesson at 11.00 this morning!

 

[pbrown7582]

Plenty of range time honing the things taught makes a big difference too congrats on the PB, now to set aboutbreaking 90 well within reach without the horrible start.

 

[leaney]

Was playing quite well, by my standards, until the snow came and combined with a virus to give me 2 to 3 weeks off.

On playing again I had gone backwards and was very frustrated but, being in the middle of a series of lessons with our club pro kept at it. After being consistently under 100 I had gone back to 100+ scoring.

Yesterday played in a weekly roll-up. Took 10 on the par 5 first and threatened to go home, go back to bed and get up again to start afresh, topped and sliced my way from tee to green. Scrambled a 4 on the par 3 second then played bogey golf for most of the front 9 to end with 48 (including the 10).

Then went mad on the back 9 taking 43 including a birdie and 3 pars. Total for round 91 - a personal best. My ball striking and short game vastly better.

Just goes to show that persisting with good tuition even when things are not going well pays off eventually.

Got to go - next lesson at 11.00 this morning!

Great news mate, keep it up!

Lessons are definitely the way to go if you want to improve. Although I've had a couple of lessons that I felt weren't very good, the others (5 of them) were very good. And as a result I'm on an 18 handicap in 9 months of playing. I couldn't recommend them enough!

 

[Justman]

Great post this as I am at a similar stage. Felt I've been going backwards since I started playing last August but feel I have now bottomed out. Changed pro and starting to build a swing I'm getting more and more confident with.

Well done and keep it going!

By the way Leaney, I'm just a little bit jealous of your bag of clubs! :thup:

 

[Tiger]

Nice one well played fella

 

[leaney]

Great post this as I am at a similar stage. Felt I've been going backwards since I started playing last August but feel I have now bottomed out. Changed pro and starting to build a swing I'm getting more and more confident with.

Well done and keep it going!

By the way Leaney, I'm just a little bit jealous of your bag of clubs! :thup:

Thanks mate. 'All the gear, no idea' springs to mind! ;-)

 

[ScienceBoy]

High handicappers tend to fall into one of two categories, ones who can hit the ball but generally into trouble and ones who struggle to advance the ball but can keep it safe.

My advice to you would be to get yourself a playing lesson once you start scoring in the mid 90s. It will open your eyes on how golf is played. The better players are not always the ones who fire at every pin and drive 270 yards.

There is a lot to be said for the players who wood/hyhrid to the middle of the fairway, iron to around the green, chip/long putt it close and hole out for par or a bogey at worst.

A playing lesson will show you how a pro knows where the safe miss is and when laying up on a par 4 is the better option.

Sometimes as a high handicapper you have to choose between having fun and just getting up the fairway and avoid more than an 8 on your card. If you play the same course week in week out you can learn which holes a bogey should be your par.

 

[Justman]

Thanks mate. 'All the gear, no idea' springs to mind! ;-)

Haha! I get that phrase said to me. One day, we'll prove them all wrong!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Got the long awaited short game lesson on Monday. Hoping the work I've put in on the range with the new swing will start to ahow some progress on the course this weekend. Got a 9 hole playing lesson as the last part of this block of lessons and looking forward to it