bobmac
Major Champion
Patience
WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM???
- Thread starter MikeH
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Patience
tonto768
Assistant Pro
My biggest problem is talking the clubs out of rhs car. I should just leave them there.
Timberbonce
Head Pro
I'm rubbish at golf....I've started to type my specific problem about 4 times now and i've come to realise its just consistancy i'm lacking. The lessons i'm having at the mo should help.
I would like to see some simple instruction on shot shaping and back spin around the greens though.
I would like to see some simple instruction on shot shaping and back spin around the greens though.
justhitthething
Assistant Pro
All of the above
the shot you find most difficult to play - A half shot with a wedge - give me a fulll 52 or 56 (85 or 60 yards) and I'm fine bt ask me to halve the distances with these clubs and its shanks and fats all the way
scenario you struggle to deal with - Standing on the first in a medal knowing my game isn't "on" and I'm hitting the ball left and right - trying to find a way of getting it round
area of your game you wish was better - Long bunker shots. Like many I can get it out 8/10 times from greenside bunkers to a close flag placement with a modicum of control but ask for a 20-30 yard bunker shot to a back flag position and I'll hit it way too heavy or blade it over the back
scenario you struggle to deal with - Standing on the first in a medal knowing my game isn't "on" and I'm hitting the ball left and right - trying to find a way of getting it round
area of your game you wish was better - Long bunker shots. Like many I can get it out 8/10 times from greenside bunkers to a close flag placement with a modicum of control but ask for a 20-30 yard bunker shot to a back flag position and I'll hit it way too heavy or blade it over the back
Owen_Thomas_14
Journeyman Pro
A low cut when im in the trees. I can hit all shots apart from that one, the balls just jumps up and eventually cuts or hits a tree.
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Definately warming up before a round. At the moment it normally consists of 2 Benson&Hedges, picking up a card and walking to the first tee
Whilst I like this method (wouldn't mind an extra ciggy though) I think it can be improved upon.
forefortheday
Tour Rookie
Putting! (lost it today Bob need the you know what quick!)
Irons all over the show today I actually missed one today!
Whiffed it 5 yards right
Mind you I did see the Captain top a tee shot on the 15th (par 3) then try to hack it out of some nice thick rough (failed) so every cloud!
Irons all over the show today I actually missed one today!
Whiffed it 5 yards right
Mind you I did see the Captain top a tee shot on the 15th (par 3) then try to hack it out of some nice thick rough (failed) so every cloud!
Toad
Tour Rookie
1. the shot you find most difficult to play
2. scenario you struggle to deal with
3. area of your game you wish was better
1. Driving is my main problem, I get the odd wicked slice out of nowhere, rest of my game is thankfully pretty solid.
2. Recovering my thoughts after a poor drive, I always seem to have a problem getting focused again and try the 1 in a million shot to recover, instead of taking my punishment and playing the percentage shot.
3. DRIVING.
2. scenario you struggle to deal with
3. area of your game you wish was better
1. Driving is my main problem, I get the odd wicked slice out of nowhere, rest of my game is thankfully pretty solid.
2. Recovering my thoughts after a poor drive, I always seem to have a problem getting focused again and try the 1 in a million shot to recover, instead of taking my punishment and playing the percentage shot.
3. DRIVING.
SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
Course Management - when to hit the right shot....
Thinking and mental approach a whole game/individual shots....
Thinking and mental approach a whole game/individual shots....
geejayboy28
Club Champion
GREENSIDE BUNKERS............I just cant seem to get out of them!!!!!!
Granted some of them dont have much sand in them due to the prevailing winds (links course) but I just down know how to approach the shot. I have tried a sand wedge, pitching wedge
and even a 64 wedge and which ever one I use, it keeps hitting the face of the bunker.
The best I can hope for is to play my next shot from behind me as the ball richochets over my shoulder.
But I'll keep trying
Granted some of them dont have much sand in them due to the prevailing winds (links course) but I just down know how to approach the shot. I have tried a sand wedge, pitching wedge
and even a 64 wedge and which ever one I use, it keeps hitting the face of the bunker.
The best I can hope for is to play my next shot from behind me as the ball richochets over my shoulder.
But I'll keep trying
AliB
Q-School Graduate
I always thought I was unusual in having difficulty with irons. Being a feeble woman I rely a lot on woods for distance, and it took me a long time to get cnmfortable with mid irons. thought I had cracked it last year, but when under pressure (like playing at new club with comparative strangers!) it's the irons that are most likely to crumble.
and as for bunkers - don't let me start. Nothing for it but a lesson, but for consistent iron striking, any tips would be handy.
AliB
and as for bunkers - don't let me start. Nothing for it but a lesson, but for consistent iron striking, any tips would be handy.
AliB
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
If I have to hit an iron I am not 100% confident with, I try to convince myself that I am hitting one that I am happy with. I can hit my 7 iron much more consistently than my 5. So if faced with a 5 iron shot I will try to tell myself that it is a 7 and try to swing as confidently with it as I would if I actually had the 7 in my hand. From the point where I pull it out of the bag I am telling myself "this is a 7 iron"....repeat all the time in your mind as you are setting up.
Doesn't always work....but works more often than not.
Rob
AliB
Q-School Graduate
Good call - I sometimes try to trick myself in other situations (there is no lake in front of you - you are playing your fave hole on your home course
Sometimes I even convince myself!
AliB
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Guest
shots: Putting (generally), chip & runs, 50 yd pitch.
scenario: par three with danger on the right (often end up hitting weak slice)
and keeping to a game plan.
scenario: par three with danger on the right (often end up hitting weak slice)
and keeping to a game plan.
viscount17
Money List Winner
bunkers - I just can't get to grips with them. I can thin them miles out the back, hit too soft and stay in, miss entirely from hitting too far behind. (fortunately we don't have many but go anywhere that does . . .)
Some I think is down to trying to over-control shots (another big problem) by really slowing the swing and not hitting through - I just can't force myself to hit hard when all I want to do is get it to stay on the green.
and the universal consistency - especially of the second shot. so many good tee-shots wasted.
Some I think is down to trying to over-control shots (another big problem) by really slowing the swing and not hitting through - I just can't force myself to hit hard when all I want to do is get it to stay on the green.
and the universal consistency - especially of the second shot. so many good tee-shots wasted.
thanks to all who have contributed tho this thread - some great ideas for areas for us to focus our instruction pages in 2010
bobmac
Major Champion
So, that's 19 chapters on the short game and 1 on the long game and driving
Seriously, watching and playing with higher handicap players, the short game is often the area of the game that a little improvement would make a huge difference to people scores and enjoyment of the game.
Yesterday it was putting........next week, who knows.
I can hit most of the right shots, I just can't hit them to order. So for me it's consistancy.
I can hit most of the right shots, I just can't hit them to order. So for me it's consistancy.
Fore
Head Pro
In response to the OP:
Consistency and stamina.
Consistency and stamina.
