My playing partners tried to trick me today. 12th a dogleg right to a green high up on a hill. My drive was just short of the corner and out of the rough I sliced a 3i around the corner and up onto the green. I was last to the green and Greg was crouched down by some thick rough on the bank of the right bunker saying my ball was there. I asked how and he replied it must have hit something. I was about to play and he picked up my ball and put it 2ft from the pin say they were joking with me. Hit loads of good shots with 8 gir. but 3 putted four of them. Horrible putting but finished with the same ball I started with and with it being spring I have got my distances back.
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Usually, a lot of GIR could also meant not in ideal position on the green for birdie. Unless youâre tour caliber golfer to settle the approach shots close or on the preferred part of the green.
Donât worry about the putting for one round, keep going with the GIR and the placement of the approach and the putting will come.
BTW, If youâre playing for any stake at all, your opponent had just lost the hole by moving your golf ball.
We are not in the comp. He tried out my driving iron and sliced it into an internal ob area. I went down to get his ball for him and that is why I was last to the green. All a bit of fun. He had marked my ball. I saw my shot in the air and I couldnât comprehend how it had rolled to such a poor spot but I accepted it. Yes 2 gir were on wrong tier. One 2ft par put broke 3 ball widths and I only read it as right lip and a monster putt I didnât hit hard enough leaving myself 6ft for my second putt. Normally i donât hit that many gir. Sometimes only one or two but make up for it with my chipping. That is why I would rather miss the green than have a monster putt. I am not beating my self up. driving and approach play was good finnese not so. Thatâs 2/3
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My shot shape is a pull draw. I aim for it. Went to another course today and only hit straight iron shots. I wish I knew why. Hit 8gir for 6 pars and a birdie. Very fast greens and had three 3 putts from downhill putts racing way past the hole. One dbl and one triple for 12 over. Another great round.
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This is the main reason why the professionals stay on the driving range right after a successful round of golf.
To figure out why and to reinforce success.
If you had a good round, itâll come back more often.
From not seeing what the difference you had made. Try go back to the basics and exam if there is something you did.
It can be as little a difference as the follow through of the swing plane. You might finish the golf swing higher and stay on the target just a fraction of a second longer.
This is where a pair of experienced eyes can help you out.
I had found over the years, most of the corrections of a faulty golf swing will be some little stuff. No need to pull out the video camera for analysis.
The camera and the software with all the pre-set forms are for the SHOW, to convince the students. Some of them will listen to a program than a teacher.
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I hit 8gir which is very unusual for me It was a much longer course and I only remembered my driver swing thought on the 16th then started hitting my best drives. I hit my best drives when I address the ball with my right foot weight on the inside. I started out on the first hitting a low fade up the left side and only drove the ball average till I remembered my foot. There was a 168m par 3 over a gully into the breeze and I hit my driving iron to 10ft. It has a loft of 16 degrees and my pro shop calls it a 1 iron. I have started to hit it off the deck. My best shot came of a loose lie. A bit of loose soil and plant material. It has a wide sole with a screw in the toe. My 3i is 21 degrees. I parred 3 of the 4 par 3âs and had a par, a birdie and a 3 putt bogie on the 3 par fives. I just hope when I play again on Sunday I can hit some good shots.
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A little misting after drizzled rain drops yesterday morning. So I told my wife, there wonât be too many of the new golfers on the golf course early in the morning on such chill and wet day.
I was wrong. As soon as we turned into the parking lot (which expanded to 3 sections now with 300+ marked parking spaces) we saw the parking lot was almost full. Found one in the back corner eventually.
Since there was a long wait for the delayed tee time (probably the usual 6+ hours for the weeked round of golf), we decided to hit the driving range and work on the short game a little before going grocery shopping.
The driving range was almost full, 54 stalls on two levels.
I believe the cost of fuel and the jammed traffic promoted the convinient location of this in-city public golf course. Soon all the stalls in the driving range were taken and the practice green, chipping green also crowded with golfers.
Larger crowd brought in potential bad elements. Garbage and waste allover the ground. Empty paper sleeve for golf balls left nect to the outting green. Plastic bottles and plastic wrappers on the walkwayâŚ
I couldânt clean up the whole place so I picked up some some along my way, to drop them in the trash cans just a few steps away.
I hate to see this as a true golfer will treat the golf course as their own backyard.
The same things happen here at my private club. Rubbish not put in bins a stones throw away. The new era of people with no respect. Played really well today. 8 pars and a birdie for 15 over including 6 over on one hole when I hit 2 balls ob and three putted. 8 one putts including 2 long bombs on the back nine. Without my penalty shots it would have been 9 over. My birdie was a 4i to a back pin that my playing partner said horseshoed around the hole. So close to a hole in one.
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You know Ricky, the key to stay in the 80s and into the 70s is to get rid of those bleeding holes.
Par is the goal, Bogey is acceptable and birdie is a bonus. When I moved from 90s into 80s scoring wise, the one thing missing from my score card was the triples and worse.
This one of the most important point besides all other tools.
Stay away from making the same mistake twice ( Tin Cup? ).
Exam your score card and reflect on how and why you made the mistake on the blown up holes. Avoid the same thing if youâre smart.
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Played again today. Played to my hcp again with 8 pars 2 dbls and a triple. 4 gir pars and 4 one putt pars. My triple was a poor tee shot then hit a tree. Good recovery shot to 96m out. Fat shot, next on the green and two putted. Poor tee shots using less than driver is currently my weakness. Knowing it and doing it are two different things. Perhaps I should put my 3w back in my bag and only use it for tee shots on short holes.
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Yeah, get rid of the blowup holes / bleeding holes is one of the things to go low.
Try to play the golf hole backward. By that, think of the putt, approach , tee shot in that sequence.
The better golf course will have the Pin-Placement of the day available either through their App. or a small print-out, the size of the score card at the check-in.
Several golf courses here will have the green surface devided into Octuple (8) sections or a Textuple ( 6 sections). Numbered the sections in the same manner for every green. The greens-keeper will anounce each morning which section of the green will be the pin placement of the day.
So, if number 3 is on the first green and number 5 on the second green and so on. It is a very simple way to give out the necessary information for golfers.
Jack nicklaus will practice with long irons off the tee for the next turnaments on his home course to get the needed practice for the approach shot on the next tournament.
Imagination is a crucial part for low cap holders. In short, play target golf.
Try that on your next couple of rounds of golf outing and see if you could improve your scoring to the next level.
BTW, if youâre not in a tournament, and not carrying the golf bag on your shoulders. using more than 14 golf clubs is not a sin. It is very useful if you are still figuring out how to match the golf course with your bag layout.
I can look at the score card of a never played golf course, with yardage, image of the golf holes, decide how to make up my golf bag for that day.
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I only carry 3i to pw, sand and lob wedge, putter 1 iron and driver so I have room for one more club. Plus I hardly ever use the lob wedge. My penalty shots were hitting my 1 iron low and right. And poor decision making. I aimed to the right off a tree across a big lake when I should have chipped out left. Easy pickings and today I will practice a few shots to get my confidence back. The is an app that gives you exact distance to the pin. My gps gives me front middle back numbers. Exact distance just confirms what I can visually see and the numbers on my gps. My gps is gives distances to hazards so it just comes down to execution and between the ears. My short game is good so I am not fazed if I miss a green.
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I donât get along with anything more lofted than 58 degrees. Could only use the 60 for green side chip and that could be accomplished with most other clubs in the bag.
Leave the Numero Uno for the practice tee. Even the professionals donât use it. Hogan and Nicklaus in their prime could use it, and even Hogan had gone to a 4 wood after the head-on accident with the bus. It requires a lot of strength plus practice to use the one iron proficiently.
Try a 4 wood, or a 2/3 hybrid. I donât carry the 2 and the 3 any more. Feeling the age a little and plus no time to practice like I was able to.
Most of my friends had gone from laser range finders to GPS range finders to smart phone app, Iâm one of the few still look for yardage markers on the prinkler heads and use the pin sheet.
I joke with them that they donât have the shots in their bags so they have toi buy all the toys.
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Hit my 1 iron 6 times today. 2 off a tee and 4 off the fairway. 4 off the fairway were all perfect. Off the tee one wormburner and one pull draw that hit a tree and bounced into the middle. Now I will try teeing off without a tee. One hole I hit the 1 iron then dropped another ball and creamed my 3 iron. The one iron went 20m further. Off the deck I am hitting a fade with the 1. I think I can hit the 1 iron because I have a shallow swing and good arc depth control. If I was steep I think I would struggle.
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With the long golf clubs, itâs all about the club head speed. Longer shaft and lower loft will need adeqite club head speed to get the golf ball airborune.
I always use a tee whereever it is allowed. It may look cool not using a tee on the par 3 tee box but that ever small extra margin for error is an edge even the professional seek.
The 4 wood or a 2 or 3 hybrid will get you the similar distance with more ofrgiveness built into the design.
Itoo, have a more shallowed swing plane modeled after Hoganâs golf swing. I even danggled a cigarette in the corner of my mouth while swinging a golf club ( maybe 40 years ago) copying my golf hero.
If you really wish to stay with irons, find a 2 iron. It is slightly more forgicen than the one iron. Also th loft and length of modern irons are at least one up maybe two than the tradition specification. So the modern 3 iron is close to the traditional 1 iron in spec.
This game is all about the direction and distance. I would still think a 4 wood will be more suited to the average golfers than the driving iron.
The term âdriving ironâ is being used by the media, thus the amateurs are thinking it is a forgiving distance club because some professional use it.
Well, the driving irons in the hands of the professional can go near 300 yards ( 275 meters). Not a lot of the amateurs could copy that.
For me, I just learn how to use a driver. My old 1 irons are stying in the collection now.
I am hitting the one 180-190m. I have never had a hybrid and am too inconsistent with fairway woods to justify putting one in the bag. Hence my driving(1) iron and having a set with a 3 and 4 iron.
Oki, is that total distance or carry? I donât carry 1,2,3,4 irons anymore. I carry a 4 wedge system, 46*, 50*, 54* & 60*. I carry a 9.5* ( 220carry, 240ttl), 14*(212 carry, 220ttl), 18* hybrid(195 carry, 214ttl), 23* 7W(185 carry, 196 ttl). Iâm 65 and play courses from 6000 yards - 6400 ydsâŚwith relative ease. I carry a 5,6,7,8 iron and the old âBillyBarooâ.
My 1 iron is 16degs and my 3 iron is 21 degs. That is total distance. I get considerable run with 1 iron and to a lesser degree the 3 iron. My course is 5357m or 5858 yards. Iâm 49 and play 5-6 rounds a week
Hereâs what I learned a long time ago about this game. If it works for you⌠thatâs all that matters. We all play the same game, but with the tools that work for us! I play with a partner that uses his PW for everything around the green, no matter what situation he finds himself in. It works for him tremendously. Heâs very consistent with it, and hits the ball with supreme confidence. I, on the other hand, use all sorts of different clubs around the green, I fail when I âtryâ to hit a PW like he does, because I want to âtryâ what my partner does instead of using the 8i or 9i that Iâm pretty consistent with at different short distances. One area that I excel in is my 60*, I can hit a FLOP way better than most. My partner âtriesâ that and usually fails miserably, because heâs afraid to accelerate his swing like I do hitting that shot. Donât change if it is working for you. If you do want to change, I always suggest CHANGE AT THE RANGE, or you will LOSE CHANGE IN YOUR NASSAU!
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So this past Saturday, finally got a NO RAIN day! BUT the wind was 30mph⌠UGH! I played the old Tale of TWO CITIES. Front 9 was a day at the BEACH! #1 into the wind, 3W, 6iron, thought I hit a great approach caught the edge of the green pin high kicked left into the BEACH! Got out, 14â left it short by 6inches, #2Crap Drive, 7W into BEACH, got out 10â jarred it par, #3 Really crap Drive, 3W to 180, Hybrid onto green, 3putted from 28ft. #4 230yd par3 Toed the hybrid went 100yds into the rough, Played the 50* to 1.5ft Par!, #5 7W, 50* to 4 ft Birdie, #6 7W, 8i to BEACH, almost holed it Par!, #7Driver into FW BEACH, 6i into greenside BEACH, 8ft Par, #8 135par3 9i to 20â Par, #9 Crap Drive, had to lay-up, hit wedge to 16ft, 2put bog=38! Back 9âŚ#10 7W, 8iron, misses green, chip to 3ft, Par, #11 3W 225, 7iron layup, 50* to 10ft, 2putt Bog⌠Then came#12 Crap drive, caught a branch, under the tree, chip out, 9i to greenside rough, whiffed a chip made 6, #13Bombed a drive playing for a big draw, caught a 3inch branch on a tree odds of hitting like 10billion to1, str8 down, made double, Parred 14, Missed 6ft Birdie putt on 15, #16 Bombed a drive Hit wedge on middle of green about 26ft, 2 putt par, Then the fun begins #17 Downwind 165 over the pond, Rinsed shot#1, retee, Rinsed shot #3, Pulled shot #5, duffed shot6, On green #7, 3putted from 18ft for a glorious 9! #18 Drive wide right, 3W into really bad lie, duffed the swipe, chipped to 10ft 2 putted for another wonderful double! 38+48= 86 UGH! Think they would let me report that abomination? Good thing season ended⌠
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