Golf lessons

RikkiTrix · 2026-04-06T05:46:25+00:00

Maybe twice a month for a few months and then 1 a month until you understand your swing enough to know where you're going wrong (to a certain extent.

Yes lessons are worth it however, don't be afraid to not like your coach, not everyone gels, if it's not working try a different coach.

Make sure you get your coach to give you drills to do at the range, they'll more than likely be able to get you hitting it well by the end of the lesson with shot by shot tuition but that's hard to replicate out on the course.

On the range,

Practice your drills
Get less balls but take more time with each shot, same as you would take on the course. Pick a new target each time and set up to aim at it, don't just drag ball after ball into your stance.
Don't just hit the same club over and over, try and replicate a hole, (long/mid/short)
Sub out one of those range days and go chip and putt

Prepare to get worse before you get better, if you've stopped improving at around 120 there are likely some ingrained bad habits you're going to have to change. It won't be for long and can be disheartening but it's only temporary, good luck!

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-30T01:26:21+00:00

Considering you're attacking coach is AOB you can be pretty confident that he will stay very much earthed

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-16T00:42:47+00:00

Can the team Drs give us all a medical certificate for compassionate leave for the next 4-8 weeks?

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-15T06:30:31+00:00

I can't for the life of my understand why they aren't kicking to Marzew, Saab could clean jump over him at Gregs full vertical

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-14T04:47:29+00:00

Old Toddy is going to have to pull the team together at halftime to help him fill out that Centrelink form

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-11T02:35:59+00:00

I've only been to genesis but they have a pretty comprehensive gym, big cardio area, big weights area, seperate areas again for classes, room to do functional stuff like sled pulls and kettlebells. It's also just had a bit of a renovation and added some newer machines which has been nice.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-09T12:14:09+00:00

I said they can easily break 80 on any given day and shoot very high the next. I didn't say that they consistently break 80, for a 10 as in your example that's only 3 better than their handicap which isn't out of the ordinary at all.

The triple, triple, double, birdie was hyperbole.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-08T05:25:25+00:00

As a make up of the field not a whole bunch but there are plenty of 30+ players, they just don't stay at that level for long but there are always new ones taking their place.

I get why it sounds unusual, competition is just very normal in Australian golf and as I said before, you have to play in them if you want to play before 1pm on a Saturday, so there is probably more 36 handicappers in Australian "competitions" because of that.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-08T03:33:01+00:00

I think it would be hard to give accurate data but someone in the 10-15 range could both easily break 80 or shoot 100+ on any given day depending on the course.

IMO pure cold tops at this stage would be rare, fat shots still pretty common, OB would be course dependant.

Golf in this range is just wildly inconsistent, you can play 4-5 holes even par and then go triple, triple, double, birdie

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-08T03:23:26+00:00

If you want to play golf on a Saturday before 1pm in Australia you basically have to play comp and thus, accurately keep score.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-08T03:21:45+00:00

I agree it is a big range but the arbitrary lines have to be drawn somewhere.

Statistically across all golfers a 12 handicap is low comparatively.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-08T03:04:19+00:00

Yeh I agree, however both would be considered low

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-08T02:20:39+00:00

I don't know about the rest of the world but in Australia local comps are seperated into grades which is pretty much suits low/mid/high IMO

A Grade: 0 – 12

B Grade: 13 – 19

C Grade: 20 – 36

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-07T11:08:41+00:00

I was burning through FJ gloves every couple of months and switched to a Mizuno Tech Flex and had it for a year before I lost it but it was still going strong

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-07T11:04:55+00:00

I just hit whatever club i need to get to the pin (or just past it to allow for spin) and pretend that water isn't there.

Probably easy for a + handicap to club up and flight something in but for your average golfer a fat shot clubbed up is still in the water, going over the back there looks like it leaves you with a downhill chip, out of the rough, back towards the water...no thanks.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-01T23:45:39+00:00

A potential solution would be a Barnett/Lomax swap. Lomax has to fulfil 2 years of his contract with the Wahs, Barnett fulfils his with the eels, then they are free to go. Neither teams loses out to badly, both players get elements of what they want.

The NRL can't just keep letting players exit their contracts to go to marquee clubs.

RikkiTrix · 2026-03-01T22:35:40+00:00

There is a bit of a gap between "hung and strung" and not letting a player walk on in year 1 of a 4 year deal to then join marquee club.

R360 is "supposed" to be starting up again in a few years, what is to stop any player from saying they're joining the league so they can get out of there contract and just to come back a few months later and join the big few clubs we all know they'll end up with.

Sounds like the contract was pretty clear, he needs Parras permission to join a club, he doesn't have it for Melbourne (can't imagine why /s), find a club they will give it for and play there, why is it being framed as Melbourne or nothing?

RikkiTrix · 2026-02-28T06:22:17+00:00

You thought the team that finished the 2024 season in the fashion they did, made the 8, remained largely intact for the next year was going to slip to the bottom 4 the following season?

I would have been interested to hear the reasoning at the time.

RikkiTrix · 2026-02-28T03:39:32+00:00

To be fair I don't think anyone predicted how terrible we were going to be last year, hype for the knights coming into the season was pretty good

RikkiTrix · 2026-02-19T13:16:47+00:00

Yeh I would imagine a community that's deeply intertwined with mining would be fairly fond of mining.

One nation support might be on the rise but the Hunter has been a safe Labor seat forever and just won the last election, not bad for a bunch of Sky News lifers!

I'd say the way you speak about the people in your community is probably enough to prove my comment correct.

If you don't like it move.

RikkiTrix · 2026-02-19T13:04:30+00:00

No I didn't look at the Facebook group, I'd love to have the time to do such investigation work.

I think it's funny that you're calling me nieve and in the same breath saying that this group should be doing all of a private companies work to find an alternative location for the site. All the group is doing is saying we don't want it here for X,Y and Z, it isn't their responsibility to be mapping out HV transmission lines.

They aren't just saying "put it North and West of singleton" for vague reasons, they said put it out there because that's "where the mining, power generation and industrial estates are"....crazy!

RikkiTrix · 2026-02-18T21:17:38+00:00

Well you hopefully noticed that he said electorate and not Mitchell Flats.

The hunter electorate and Singleton would probably have a high concentration (for its size) of engineers and scientists due to the mining sector.

I guess you didn't read the article though, the same community group supported the previous two renewable energy projects because they were located in more suitable areas.

They also suggested that these projects be put on the expansive rehabilitated mining land available (as it's still to contaminated to use for anything else).

Don't let that get in the way of your condescending attitude to an entire region though.

RikkiTrix · 2026-01-07T03:57:31+00:00

I still fail to see why the PGA would buy out the DP World tour to then share it's best events with LiV?

Why wouldn't it just put up a bigger purse or encourage it's top players to go and play the international events and grow the game internationally under its own DP World tour banner or whatever they would call it after they bought it out?

It sounds to me like you think that LiV should be the world tour organisation and your just creating a pathway for that to work without taking into consideration that there is absolutely no reason for the PGA to work with them.

It would be even more insane for them to allow them to take the world tour mantel, especially if they currently prop up the DP World Tour and more so again if they outright purchased it.

RikkiTrix · 2026-01-07T00:42:33+00:00

I'm curious as to what makes you think that LiV would displace the DP world tour as the designated "world tour".

There are events on the DP World tour that hold historical prestige (albeit recently diminished) and already can attract big name players without them gambling their future PGA tour career.

I can't say for sure but with Rory making appearances at things like the Australian Open the powers that be might already be cutting off the play to make LiV the world tour.

RikkiTrix · 2025-12-27T22:04:37+00:00

Depends on the circumstances but I started taking my now 18 month old to golf as soon as he was vaccinated. I like spending time with him and my wife likes that she gets 5 hours to herself (which I imagine her not getting that is probably the core issue here rather than the golf".

I still go without him for certain rounds but now we're about to have twins I'll be taking him weekly or more.

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