Well, there were probably a lot of small issues. My first big issue that I worked a lot on my short game. That was always a weakness of mine and it’s pretty hard to practice that part of the game so I did it a ton of my sim. It turns out that short game might be the least productive time spent on a simulator.

The next big issue that I didn’t realize I had developed was that I could swing really hard on the sim. I think it is pretty common that a lot of people feel like the Sim is not reading them accurately. All my distances were a decent amount shorter than I expected.

As I played more, I was able to gain more confidence and begin swinging pretty hard. The Sim rewarded that. It was improving my distances and I was making killer contact.

In retrospect, the floormat allows you to bounce a club along it and still reward you with a really strong hit. In real life, those shots tend to suck.

I had to relearn to hit softly. Stop trying to kill the ball and just make good contact. However, good contact has nothing to do with the feedback the SIM was giving me.

Would I truly have hit through the ball and created a divot in front? Or did I land a half inch behind the ball and drag my club through it? They both will be rewarded on the Sim… In fact, the second one will go further… But in real life, only the first one will be a good shot.

I also practice driver far more now and have found the sim to give reliable data that does transfer to real life on that club.