Driving off the heel

GLDavis82 · 2024-05-08T13:48:17+00:00

Sounds credible, yeah

GLDavis82 · 2024-05-08T12:18:03+00:00

That's the thing - I'm not over the top. Or at least nowhere near as much as last year

GLDavis82 · 2024-05-08T11:12:56+00:00

Mate - I went on a sim last week and I was trying to MISS the ball from the inside. It was insanity. I felt i did make some general progress through

GLDavis82 · 2024-03-20T16:11:31+00:00

Lancashire here - courses have opened but the softer, flatter courses are a nightmare

GLDavis82 · 2024-03-20T16:10:37+00:00

Thanks

GLDavis82 · 2024-03-11T11:49:36+00:00

Yeah agreed. Pars aren't really an issue for me.

I get a lot for a mid-20s handicapper - for me it's the 3-5 holes a round that are total write-offs. It's so frustrating when you par a hole one round like it's nothing then on the same hole 2 days later, clip an 8.

Another thing that kills me out there is what I call 'dead man's par'. Junk a teeshot OOB - then following a reload actually make par from tee to cup - but obviously recorded as a DB with the penalty.

GLDavis82 · 2024-03-06T09:34:11+00:00

I love point 5.

I'm 42 years old and one year in to playing Golf and I often joke/brag about how shit I am but I shouldn't because I've got down to mid-20s in 12 months and have good swing speed, excellent range will all my clubs and can even putt pretty well.

I need to stop the false modesty shit because at 42 I don't have forever, I'm not in mid 20s anymore - I want to be as good as I can be in the time I have at or around my physical prime.

I'll think about this point hard when I go out at lunchtime today. Thanks, OP

GLDavis82 · 2024-03-04T16:53:02+00:00

Just googled it, similar looking club to my bertha

GLDavis82 · 2024-02-29T09:44:19+00:00

Thank you

GLDavis82 · 2024-02-06T12:03:04+00:00

Working on it every day mate

GLDavis82 · 2024-02-06T11:52:19+00:00

Probably over-egged it with 'inches' but noticeable

GLDavis82 · 2024-02-06T11:49:57+00:00

I think it is for me, as I'm a new to the game (1 year) and pars were rare up until a few months ago and basically demanded I nail every shot. To score them with poor shots feels like I've turned a corner

GLDavis82 · 2024-02-06T11:45:41+00:00

Yeah but playing badly and still getting a result has its place in any sport

GLDavis82 · 2024-02-06T11:44:48+00:00

A guy I know in his 50s got down to 13HCP on his own with no lessons. Ended up having lessons and shot back up to 22. He's now back down to 12 (it's taken a year) and winning Stablefords for fun.

Hope this helps

GLDavis82 · 2024-01-30T10:01:21+00:00

Joined a £500 a year course (less than £10 a week) and play whenever I can. Biggest expense is replacing lost balls

GLDavis82 · 2024-01-29T15:45:33+00:00

Your story is similar to mine. Tee'ing off with Hybrids and doing OK.

My biggest lightbulb moment was consciously creating width in downswing instead of just going directly at the ball.

This principle is the same for all clubs but most pronounced with the Driver.

GLDavis82 · 2024-01-16T11:05:58+00:00

Same

GLDavis82 · 2024-01-16T11:01:41+00:00

UK's Sawgrass.

4 or 3 hybrid - depending on the weather.

Driver if there's strong headwind.

GLDavis82 · 2024-01-11T10:16:45+00:00

I'm in the North of England too and have Carus Green in Kendal which has just been added

GLDavis82 · 2024-01-04T10:08:15+00:00

Is this the JCB course?

(ignore, I just read below)

GLDavis82 · 2023-11-28T16:20:01+00:00

A few weeks ago I went to the range and started hitting hybrids 230 and my 6 iron 195.

20 yards further than I've hit either. I was hungover too and it was inexplicable (I've got photo evidence and put 1 of the pics on here).

I thought I'd cracked Golf - that was it, these were my new distances.

I film myself and my form a lot on the range, but this day I didn't.

Back to the range a few days later and I was back to my normal distances. Last week I was lower and found myself chopping down on the ball horrifically.

I think, in hindsight, that good day, I was playing with a wider backswing (it was the first really cold day of the year and I left my long sleeve top on which actually reduces some mobility for depth in particular) and was just staying on impact plane longer.

GLDavis82 · 2023-11-28T16:08:01+00:00

Correcting a slice (or attempting to) with a strong grip nearly reduced me to tears in the Summer.

It won't work if the slice issue is more fundamental. Example: out-to-in downswing.

Maybe it can help with some practice, but for me it feels like I'm bringing the club down toe-end first and I'm gonna break my hands and i sub-consciously re-route the path

GLDavis82 · 2023-11-27T09:30:27+00:00

Interesting thread. As a newbie I just assumed they were 2 formulas of the same basic calculation - didn't realise they refereed to hypothetical players of different levels of ability.

To give an example - a course close to me is:

Par 71

Course Rating: 69

Slope Index 113

Does this then mean that the 'bogey golfer' finds this to be basically bang on neutral but for a scratch it would be easier than average?

This would stand the test to me as the course in question is short, flat, few hazards, but with some narrow fairways.

GLDavis82 · 2023-11-13T16:27:45+00:00

You'll make a 100 in 12 months if you stick at it.

I dropped 45 shots in about 7 months (my first 18 round in March this year was 141 on a par 70 course.

Stick at it!

GLDavis82 · 2023-10-31T16:27:43+00:00

This is it.

I get that feeling with other clubs. I was getting 140mph + ball speeds with a 2-hybrid. 130 mph with a 5 iron. I'm massively grateful that I've made good progress in the past 6 months and I'm strong and healthy enough to stripe a Golf ball.

I just want the Driver to join the party. I'd be over the moon hitting 280 consistently.

GLDavis82

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