What's the weakest part of your game and what are you doing about it?

My form Has been iffy for much of this year and I've been slicing the driver more. I played a Captain/Pro match yesterday and hit the ball ok but not as good as I can. I had a chat at the end with the pro and he said he could sort out my swing in 10 to 15 minutes and even get me a draw, something I've rarely managed with any regularity and so I booked a lesson for today.

He got me to stand exaggeratedly closed to the target, open my left foot more, swing to the top and turn my chest to the target more on the downswing and voila a real draw! I managed to draw every shot from the 2nd to last ball of the lesson!

Hopefully happy days to come!
 
Consistency. I'm a beginner (all of eight weeks club playing experience). I can do all the very basic shots but not every time. I can par a hole one day ( from academy tees) then take 10 on the same hole the next.
What am I doing about it?Laughing, trying again, laughing some more, having lessons, scooping balls out of the lake, playing with any patient person who will take me out, devouring golf books, trying yet again, and generally enjoying the challenge. Oh and wondering why the heck this stupid game is so darn additive and when I became a person who buys argyle sweaters. :)
 
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All the stuff around the green. Green side bunker, rough just next to green, even just short on the fairway.
The next shot just overshot the green, leaving me with the same situation on the other side.

I just keep watching youtube and trying to apply that on the course. I find it hard to train short game on a range as the mats don't really simulate that bit well. But I also have a lesson of a block of 3 felt with a pro, that's what I want him to go through with me.
 
Apart from the odd temporary glitch (pull hooks, I'm looking at you) my only real problem is overcrowding my brain with too many swing thoughts looking for some kind of Utopian wonder-swing. It it what it is mainly so need to forget technique and just play what I see - I've got the shots, within the realms of an amateur, but don't apply them very well. Just need to do it.
 
BrizoH71 said:
Putting has been my nemesis this season, especially from distance.. leaving myself too many big second putts which almost invariably turn into 3 and occasionally 4-putts.

Been told I'm decelerating, so working on that, along with continually swapping putters and grips. Probably spent three figures on putter grips this term trying to find one I'm comfortable with. :o
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Why don't you go to a pro with a SAM lab and get custom fitted for a putter and putting lesson at the same time?
 
delc said:
Chipping, especially short ones, which I tend to yip or even shank. I have been getting round this by putting from off the green if possible, but have been practising chipping left hand below right for the last few weeks, which seems to work well.
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You're chipping with left hand low? When you chip from just off the green, what club are you using? A variety in the bag or always the same, i.e. 56 / 60 etc?
 
Like most I struggle through the bag from time to time, but my main gripe at the minute is my driver.

My driving is consistently poor.

To address, I plan on dedicating this winter to lessons and practice to correct.










If that fails I'll buy another driver :D
 
woody69 said:
You're chipping with left hand low? When you chip from just off the green, what club are you using? A variety in the bag or always the same, i.e. 56 / 60 etc?
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I can use almost any club left hand low. Right hand low I have to chip with a 55 or 60 degree wedge, so that I can then take a long enough swing at it to avoid a yip.
 
Chipping was ropey but sorted it with a tip a couple of weeks ago to change stance quite radically (wouldn't say I'm now best in the world but top 3 anyway)

Lag putting was an issue last time out but swapped for a heavier putter for this weekend so that'll be that one sorted along with change in grip (gone all interlocking which helps keep the face straight)

Driver slice has come back after a few months absence so that one still needs a remedy (hitting angry seems to help though so at least I've got something to work on)
 
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delc said:
I can use almost any club left hand low. Right hand low I have to chip with a 55 or 60 degree wedge, so that I can then take a long enough swing at it to avoid a yip.
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I'm sure you can, it's not difficult is it, but it's hardly conventional introducing a cack-handed grip for chipping. Still you seem to constantly go on about the yips so if it helps you hit a more confident stroke and helps you score, then good for you.
 
My chipping alternates between average and pathetic, previously I got a chipper and it worked really well before pride and some severe ribbing made me remove it.
After 2 games of pathetic in last week I practiced today with the new odyssey chipper. Awesome

Am I going to get it ?

No chance :-)

Stupid golfer pride
 
chrisd said:
He got me to stand exaggeratedly closed to the target, open my left foot more, swing to the top and turn my chest to the target more on the downswing and voila a real draw! I managed to draw every shot from the 2nd to last ball of the lesson!

Hopefully happy days to come!
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I had the exact same lesson today :) I am quite new to golf and have a tendancy to come over the top with face slightly open resulting in lots of balls in the trees! I hit probably 95% today nice and straight with some draw, so hopefully tomorrow it will keep up :)

Good luck
 
Having played desperately over the last few weeks I bit the bullet and had a lesson. Posture (again) with weight too much on toes so moved it back a tad and created more knee flex and then simply worked around firmer right leg and stopping left knee collapsing. All of my previous set up, too stiff in legs, weight too far forward and dancing left leg led to steep and OTT swing.

Much better and just need to work through it a bit as we've started to address my over swing, especially with the driver. As its been a stop start year with my health problems and other things, I've kind of written it off and starting to think about next year already.
 
I wish I really knew but it seems to be the mental game.

I haven't played anywhere near as much as I would have liked this year and that may be part of the problem. When I do get to play I'm like a dog off its lead, over excited and chasing after everything all at once. I'm good off the tee, I'm really happy putting, my pitching and chipping could be a lot better but it's not terrible. Something in-between with my irons is going wrong; I have simply written too many double bogeys on my card this year due to a bad iron shot which has put me in trouble. Then, too frequently, I've followed one bad shot up with a second bad shot before being able to reset myself and moving on.

What to do? Play more but, woe is me, it's not going to happen.
 
Mental game - specifically visualisation. I don't do it consistently enough and can be affected by a range of factors but slow play is the biggest. Developed a new pre shot routine to enable spending more time picturing the shot I want to hit, having a very small target and releasing tension before I swing.

Only played a couple of half rounds since I've started the new approach but I'm off 24 and have shot +7 and +5 (over 10 and 8 holes) so I think it's working :)
 
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