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the whole secret to the game is a back swing and a down swing right right you all got good grips you all have good speed through the ball You’ got beautiful looking swings but You’ got to have something that works under pressure and what you did say that I liked and I put you in the question and said when you hit it straight I would like you to have said I never try and hit it straight because if you hit it straight it’s a bloody fluke you can’t hit it straight every time player you see they get on the te they need a four to win they draw it they fade it Bubba what look at Bubba how about babba Watson swing I mean it’s I mean okay but look how he plays the swing is not the thing but babba gets up and it’s very effective he tries to draw it or he tries to fade it he never tries to hit it straight because you can’t hit it straight if you hit it straight it’s a fluke so when now you say well why is that there’s your Fairway it’s 30 y wide let’s take this this practice here this is the width of your Fairway if I aim here off the T back there to try to hit it on this Fairway and here’s the middle of the Fairway I’ve got n yards of error nine yards of error but if I aim there and fade it I got 18 yards of error so you got double the chance or you aim on the right and you draw it you got twice if I’m playing a hole and there’s water on the LIF and I need a four to in the to it and there’s water on the left there and it’s a narrow Fairway I aim out there and I draw the ball and I make this my Fairway I forget about that all I want to do is be one inch on this Fairway one inch that’s all so I aim out there and I hook the ball I can’t aim out there and hook the ball in the water it’s almost impossible so I aim out there and I hook the ball and I try and put it on this little piece of fway here so the course management and the way you play and you go around a golf course is to see and to have the right mind and to have the right course management you look at Jack Nicholas his course management was impeccable Tiger Woods incredible that’s what separates just one of the things that separate besides the word called talent that separates the other people
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Good point about Nicklaus. He would aim left-center knowing it wouldn't go left. That high fade of his might leak a little to the right, but that was fine.
The other piece of advice to go with this is to use the entire width of the TEE BOX. Don't just automatically tee the ball up in the middle of the tee box. If you're going to fade the ball, tee up on the ride side of the box and aim down the left side of the fairway. If you're gonna draw the ball, tee up on the left side of the tee box and aim down the right side of the fairway. I preach this all the time. I can't count how many times I play with other people, people who hit pronounced draws or fades (i.e. hooks or slices) and they just tee it up in the middle of the tee box and aim down the middle hoping that THIS will be the time when their ball doesn't hook or slice. Play the odds. Play the angles. Use the terrain and geometry to your advantage. THINK your way around the golf course much like you would think your way through a chess match, or even checkers, for that matter. Plan ahead. Play the hole in reverse, from green back to the tee, in your mind and determine where you want your tee shot to go (or NOT go).
I have to say he’s wrong because I hit it strait back in the seventy’s and I hit it very long. The P G A tour is nothing but monkey see a monkey do. I have proven that the swing is very simple but most people will not listen. There is not one player on tour can watch someone hit two balls a fix there swing. I have done it hundreds of times the sad part is people will not ask.
How old was Gary player in this clip – he looks and moves 👌🏻👌🏻
Moe Norman. I hit it straight all the time, usually 230-250in the air. I use Moe Norman's technique. People I play with are always amazed because nearly all my shots are always straight. Didn't start golf until I was 60, 68 now but almost always straight. HCP 14.
Gary's getting sillier the older he gets. It's time for 500 crunches.
I don't find this particularly insightful. Course management is a pretty basic concept for most to people to understand and every decent golfers uses it. The key thing is having a repeatable that produces a consistent shot shape. But most amateur golfers don't have that. The key is to look at your expected disbursion for the club you are going to hit and aim where the majority of that expected disbursion doesn't put you in trouble. Aiming down the left of a hole with OOB and expectinb a fade is fine until you double cross or hit a straight one.
True, but it requires consisrency first. If it's possible to .iss both sides … 😬
Yay, good
Gary player is an arrogant old man .
He might have been successful in his career. the majority of his opponents were substandard only a few quality players at the time.
It's all me me me .
Ken Venturi who played a lot with Hogan and Nelson said Hogan was the best at 'course management' but Nelson was the best ball striker.
but i do hit it straight.
Back in the day when balls spun a lot hitting it straight was definitely a challenge. Nowadays the ball spins so little trying to curve it is a challenge. I play in Colorado at 5000 ft and the reduction in air pressure makes it curve even less, so I just play for a straight ball all the time.
What he’s saying is that you cannot WILL the ball to go straight at your target and make it happen all the time and every time. There are players who do accomplish it very often because they have good control of their bodies and make good decisions at setup and club selection etc. But they still always make some kind of course management decision before the shot that helps improve their chance of success in case they do not hit the shot absolutely perfectly.
I think I have now realised that I should embrace my slice and just aim 30 yards left off the tee 😝
Calvin Peete. The exception that proves the rule.
I hit a lot of shots straight but I’m trying to hit a draw😂