What do you find the easiest to do?

[kid2]

I think that what most (over 90%) of club golfers have an issue with is there ability to be able to know where their ball will end up....Thats what separates good players from average players....

As most struggle to make the same swing with every shot then of course the nett outcome is your accuracy is lost..That doesnt mean that the strike was bad...Just the direction
You've all been there...
Hit one OOB and reload only to nail the 2nd dead straight down the middle at maximum distance for the given club...

Now think of how good you could become if you were to hit every shot the same way you hit the reload.
I think what most struggle with me included is not knowing what causes the bad shots...If we were to unlock that problem it would be a far simpler game.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

i FIND THAT JUST MAKING IT FOR MY TEE OFF TIME SOMETIMES CAN BE HARD

Is that why you play at Ascot Bash, cause we don't have tee times?

 

[USER1999]

Not doing either at the moment.

If I ever find out, I'll post.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I tend to make decent contact most of the time but tend to be directionally challenged every now and then.

 

[RobbOnTheRock]

I would day I can catch the middle of the sweet spot, but i more often than not push or pull the shot and it ends up off target. Still being a high handicapper the feel of a good strike is sometimes enough to make you feel your making progress regardless of direction.......

If I nail my driver and slice it, but i feel as if I unit it well and my swing flowed, then I consider that a good shot........but then I have low expectations.....

Cheers
Andy

 

[elliottlale]

for me, its generally direction on the irons/wedges off the fairway and contact off the tee. my direction suffers more off the tee, mainly when using my 3 wood/driver. and seem to duff shots more off the deck

 

[EZprophet]

I definitely miss the target more due to poor contact. I regularly go entire rounds without striking one shot correctly, but manage to score ok as my misses are usually reasonably straight.

I do have the odd period where I seem unable to mishit a shot but that usually goes away fairly quickly. On those days my misses are directional, slight pulls and pushes.

Overall though most shots I hit are slightly thin or slightly fat, with the odd very fat one thrown in there and the occasional good strike.

 

[upsidedown]

Have always struck the ball well but struggled with direction, started with a fade and have been cultivating a draw into my game.
With a set up change last week now hitting some lovely shots, 4 iron from 168 yards into wind and stiffed it to 3 foot to close out my club championship match 5 and 3.

The wee change? basically sticking my butt out which has straightened my spine and helped with a more fluid swing

 

[BogeyHole]

I'll rephrase the question.
If you miss the green, is it normally because of a bad contact (duff, top, thin) or bad direction (missing left or right)

I usually miss the green short and straight - thin and fat are both specialities du jour.

But I can manage a very nice misallignment and slice when I do fluke a reasonable strike.

Add that to a wonderfully weak short game, and I have the perfect game - one that is so poor that the occaisional good shot is all it takes to make me happy.

 

[BogeyHole]

Oh, and the answer to

"What do you find the easiest to do?"

is..

cock it up.

 

[Mungoscorner]

Untill i stopped playing 3 years ago,i always considered myself a reasonably good ball striker.Even on a bad day i was able to find the middle of the club,although my accuracy did suffer.My standard shot was a soft draw,although i did have off days when the draw became a hook,and the odd block made an appearance.
Since starting to play again a few weeks ago,i just seem unable to find the middle of the club,obviously it'll take time to groove a swing again,but i did think i'd still be able to strike the ball,even if it didn't go exactly where i aimed.Silly thing is,when i go to the range,almost evry ball is struck sweetly,and 90% end up where i've aimed.
Has anybody else suffered similar problems after having a break from the game ?

 

[Mr_T]

You can tell when the ball's come right out of the middle of the club, but the face might be open or closed and the ball ends up way off target.
To me that's a good strike, although not a good shot.

I would agree with that, I certainly know when its come out the middle but unfortunately the clubface is sometimes slightly open so I see it flying off to the right.

In answer to the rephrased question, I definetely miss the green because of the connection, not the direction... which somewhat contradicts what I said above!

 

[USER1999]

I tend to miss greens when they put them in silly places, like at the end of the fairway. No chance.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

The ones that move just after you've hit the ball are pretty tricky too Murph

 

[RGDave]

I've never hit it well, so my answer is straight.
Except that's not very easy either....

 

[Region3]

According to SS2 I miss more greens left and right than I do short and long so I guess it's direction for me, although I don't feel like I catch most of my shots properly.