Driver – 265 yds
– main miss is slice, or snap hook for over correct
5 iron – 175 yds
– over draw
7 iron – 155 yds
– push fade
9 iron – 135 yds
– chunk/skull
60 degree – 75 yds
– skull
by Transnistria_is_real
Driver – 265 yds
– main miss is slice, or snap hook for over correct
5 iron – 175 yds
– over draw
7 iron – 155 yds
– push fade
9 iron – 135 yds
– chunk/skull
60 degree – 75 yds
– skull
by Transnistria_is_real
6 Comments
Easy way to get better is to stop taking mulligans
Understanding why the shots take flight the way they do helps me when diagnosing my swing errors.
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Your slice is due to a straight club face but you come across the ball and introduce a lot of spin. There’s a good chance you’re hitting it off the heel of the club, too, as the heel produces more spin. An over draw 7 iron is likely a closed club face with an in-to-out swing. Push fade is a slice with an open face. A chunky and skulled 60° is probably ball placement and contact.
Here’s what I would do if I were you – I’d go to the range and work on one specific thing. Lets say the chunky or skulled wedge. Place a towel just behind the ball, and hit the ball without hitting the towel. We’re not looking for distance or flight yet. Simply contact we like. Once we get that contact we like, we can work on flight and distance. But use that drill on all of your wedges and irons. Next up I would work on club face on mid irons, so your 7 iron. Get a slow motion video of your swing and see whats wrong, then try and work it back to where you want. You can even play with where the ball sits in your stance or if its more towards the toe or heel of the club at impact. We’re looking for simple and repeatable setup. Repeat that process for driver.
Now, we get to course management. We’re looking to improve our chances of avoiding big numbers on the score card. First thing we need to do is manage expectations. You’ll never go 14/14 fairways in a round. You’ll never go 18/18 greens in regulation. You’ll never stick a ball to 3 ft twice in a row. The pros don’t even aim for those numbers, so don’t beat yourself up if you miss a fairway. Secondly, we need to avoid 3 or more putts. That is the fastest way to add strokes to a card. Being able to have a consistent lag putt and confidence from 5ft and in. Third, we need to avoid going out of bounds off the tee. For this our strategy is to find our miss, and aim in a way that our bad shots end up okay. Our good shots still end up good. That is to say if you slice, play the slice. The final thing is that if we can do those things and never take the “hero” shot (shooting the small gap through the trees for example) then your scores will drop. I’m not an amazing golfer, but I follow these rules and I shoot low 80’s, high 70’s. And the reason I don’t shoot lower is because I just don’t practice putting.
If you’re using mulligans to break 100.
Uou are not breaking 100.
Hate to be one of the ones to tell you, but if you are taking a few mulligans a round your score card is meaningless.
Count your score correctly first without cheating, start from there
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