bluewolf
Money List Winner
I think we must be playing a different hole if you didn't see that bunker by the green.
What do you think about during your swing?
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SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Thats good :thup:
Revolt
Assistant Pro
Ususally just focus on the ball and smashing into the back of it at the angle I think will send it straight...... if that makes sense.....
theres been a few times last season where I stood over the ball and just knew I was going to hit an absolute screamer.... Usually with 7-9Iron...... on these occasions I just swung when feeling confident and had tap ins for birdie..... wish I knew what made me feel that way so I could repeat it :/
theres been a few times last season where I stood over the ball and just knew I was going to hit an absolute screamer.... Usually with 7-9Iron...... on these occasions I just swung when feeling confident and had tap ins for birdie..... wish I knew what made me feel that way so I could repeat it :/
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
depends if i am hitting a fade or draw. then simply what way i am looing to swing. slightly out to in or slightly in to out.
jcooper5083
Club Champion
Interesting to see all the variations of peoples thought process.
I believe I have been well over thinking things during my swing causing loss of focus on the target and confusion at times.
as the average swing is only a second or two in time that leaves very little time to think about anything and after doing some reading and listening to audio books over the weekend the best approach I have heard is to make all the decisions before even addressing the ball and then throughout the swing all you think about is the target, so hard that you can visualize it all the way through the swing.
This way you are allowing muscle memory and signals from the brain to the body to do everything you have been practicing on.
On the practice range that is where there are many thoughts broken down through the swing but not on the course.
I am lookibng forward to trying this over xmas on the course to see if I can just do everything I have been working hard on the range.
I believe I have been well over thinking things during my swing causing loss of focus on the target and confusion at times.
as the average swing is only a second or two in time that leaves very little time to think about anything and after doing some reading and listening to audio books over the weekend the best approach I have heard is to make all the decisions before even addressing the ball and then throughout the swing all you think about is the target, so hard that you can visualize it all the way through the swing.
This way you are allowing muscle memory and signals from the brain to the body to do everything you have been practicing on.
On the practice range that is where there are many thoughts broken down through the swing but not on the course.
I am lookibng forward to trying this over xmas on the course to see if I can just do everything I have been working hard on the range.
Justman
Assistant Pro
Great thread this, along with another one I seem to remember you started recently. This is very much the issue I have had since taking up the game last year.
Since I started, my goal has been to break 100 to the degree that i put myself under so much pressure everytime I walk on the course. I have so many swing thoughts over the ball and I know it affects how I play. My friends and pro often make nice comments about my swing and don't understand why I struggle to break 100.
A prime example can be if I hit 3 off the tee (which can happen a couple of times a round). The 1st shot has so many swing thoughts. When I reload, I never think about it and 9/10, it'll be straight down the middle.
I've fallen for it everytime I go out, but the penny is starting to drop that I just need to relax and clear my mind. Hopefully my scores will improve as a result! Yours too cooper! :thup:
Since I started, my goal has been to break 100 to the degree that i put myself under so much pressure everytime I walk on the course. I have so many swing thoughts over the ball and I know it affects how I play. My friends and pro often make nice comments about my swing and don't understand why I struggle to break 100.
A prime example can be if I hit 3 off the tee (which can happen a couple of times a round). The 1st shot has so many swing thoughts. When I reload, I never think about it and 9/10, it'll be straight down the middle.
I've fallen for it everytime I go out, but the penny is starting to drop that I just need to relax and clear my mind. Hopefully my scores will improve as a result! Yours too cooper! :thup:
jcooper5083
Club Champion
Do you know what has done it for me.... Got the audio book "golf is not a game of perfect" on my iPhone and its amazing. Such down to earth thinking and its all about what you should or shouldn't think about pre, during and post swing. Get it. Its great.
Thanks for the compliment by the way.
G1BB0
Money List Winner
if I think too much I balls it up. Has anyone noticed when hitting a shot and you try too hard or think too much it usually ends up pants. Whenever you hit a reload or in anger after a duff you pure it... coincidence?
Justman
Assistant Pro
Yep, exactly and I hope I'm starting to wise up to this.
Thanks jcooper. I already have his putting one. Think I'll have to get this too!
jcooper5083
Club Champion
No worries. I seriously advise getting this one. Its a fantastic audio book and makes so much sense. I have listened to it every day fir the last 2 weeks at work, in the car and when chilling at home.
Good luck justman. Let me know if the audio book helps.
MadAdey
Money List Winner
Depends on how well I am hitting the ball. If going well I just tell myself low slow and let it go.....
Or swinging badly it is thinking about the last swing disecting the ball flight and wondering if it was a push-draw pull-draw or a great big duck-hook and what caused it..... it is at this point my partners tell me to get on with it...
Or swinging badly it is thinking about the last swing disecting the ball flight and wondering if it was a push-draw pull-draw or a great big duck-hook and what caused it..... it is at this point my partners tell me to get on with it...
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Last time out final thought was picturing my finish. No thoughts duriung swing. A nice Hoganesque follow-through (in my minds eye)
jcooper5083
Club Champion
This is it, not having thoughts about the mechanics of the swing and just letting muscle memory and the signals from the brain to the body do the tings you have spent ages practicing on.
cookelad
Tour Winner
Just the one (occasionally two) swing thought for me basically to stop the slidey hips! Occasionally might think to take the club back more square if I'm getting a little inside!
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
Full shoulder turn, start the downswing with my left hip.
That's all, nothing complicated
That's all, nothing complicated
jcooper5083
Club Champion
Full shoulder turn, start the downswing with my left hip.
That's all, nothing complicated
Sounds good, simple but effective. do you think if you eliminated these 2 thoughts and thought about nothing but the target this would help at all?
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Just out of interest.... why would you want to think about the target?
Here's my thought process..........
Keep calm deep breaths, take aim then I think.............
"you're gonna get it",
"gonna smash your head in"
"you're so going to get hit hard"
"I am going to Pulverise you"
"YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE THIS"
"UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR"
"DIE"
"JUST DIE LITTLE WHITE BALL"
then I shank it
Keep calm deep breaths, take aim then I think.............
"you're gonna get it",
"gonna smash your head in"
"you're so going to get hit hard"
"I am going to Pulverise you"
"YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE THIS"
"UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR"
"DIE"
"JUST DIE LITTLE WHITE BALL"
then I shank it
Phil2511
Global Moderator
Here's my thought process..........
Keep calm deep breaths, take aim then I think.............
"you're gonna get it",
"gonna smash your head in"
"you're so going to get hit hard"
"I am going to Pulverise you"
"YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE THIS"
"UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR"
"DIE"
"JUST DIE LITTLE WHITE BALL"
then I shank it
Class lol
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Sorry Jumping in here:
The target is a good thing to focus on. If you focus on the ball it will encourage your intent to just hitting at it, which IMO is not a good idea. I look at the ball but have my focus out at the target, this encourages swinging through the ball with the club accelerating.
