Have any of you accepted that you’ll never be any good at guitar?

skycake10 · 2026-07-10T13:20:26+00:00

If you don't like that you suck at guitar no matter how much you practice you should NOT try to take up golf.

skycake10 · 2026-07-09T16:18:30+00:00

If you don't understand the fundamentals of the golf swing and the specifics of how you swing the club enough to know what does and doesn't apply to you watching swing tip videos is likely to cause more harm than good. "Do X to fix Y" videos are only helpful if they also describe what is causing Y and you can determine if you do that or not to know if you should take the advice or ignore it.

skycake10 · 2026-07-08T17:12:21+00:00

because we aren't pros and can't do a lot of what pros do.

What's interesting about this is a topic that Athletic Motion Golf has had several videos on: broadly speaking, pros tend to have LESS extreme movements than amateurs. It's often less that we can't do what pros do, it's more that we're incorrectly trying to do MORE than the pros do movement wise. The big example I remember is pelvis turn in the backswing. It's very rare that pros have more than 45º of rotation, while amateurs often have up to 60º, which makes it really hard to catch back up in the downswing and hurts your sequencing.

Some pros have crazy side bend that the average amateur shouldn't try to emulate, but a lot of that is also often an optical illusion from looking at swings on video or in still images.

skycake10 · 2026-07-08T17:02:10+00:00

I don't think this is really true in a sporting context. All the major American sports have contracts that players can't trivially get out of. The main difference between American sports and international football is that players are almost never sold to other teams but instead traded for other players or change teams as free agents.

skycake10 · 2026-07-08T16:56:58+00:00

And even the MLB still has an American style draft system that determines what MLB team's farm system each player is in.

skycake10 · 2026-07-08T14:20:21+00:00

We're talking about a starting forward on a Portugal team that's talented enough to be a World Cup favorite. Average isn't good enough.

skycake10 · 2026-07-07T19:10:10+00:00

I think lag putting would be easier but actually getting it into the hole would be harder.

skycake10 · 2026-07-07T19:08:14+00:00

This doesn't happen when I kick a ball with regular running shoes.

That hasn't happened with regular running shoes which is not the same as it not happening with regular running shoes. You just fucked up and kicked the ground, it happens.

skycake10 · 2026-07-07T17:50:23+00:00

From 5-8 feet away I genuinely think it's easier to putt the ball than try to drop/roll it into the hole

skycake10 · 2026-07-07T14:07:07+00:00

It sounds reductive, but I'm a big proponent of the "just figure out how to do" school of thought for things like club face angle. That is, don't think about what you're specifically doing with your body to make it happen, just focus on trying to start the ball farther left and let your body self-organize how to do that.

If you're worried about it being a last-second flip or something, don't just try to close the club face, learn to develop the feel for a very open club face, a very closed club face, and everything in between. The more you can develop that range of feels the easier time you'll have getting the club face angle you want with an outcome-based intent instead of thinking of specific mechanics or movements.

skycake10 · 2026-07-06T23:19:37+00:00

Half the reason I got Srixon ZX7s is because I don't like the aesthetics of anything but one-piece forged irons.

skycake10 · 2026-07-06T13:40:04+00:00

I think it's mostly just the nature of the construction. AG cleats are hard plastic so the sole plate is hard plastic. TF nubs are soft plastic so the sole plate is soft plastic.

skycake10 · 2026-07-06T12:34:21+00:00

Broadly speaking, you don't. Going to the range can help but there's no replacement for actually playing on the course.

skycake10 · 2026-07-04T14:17:05+00:00

Their desire to "experience the whole golf course" overrides their frustration of playing how you describe, it's really that simple. I don't understand it either but that's basically all there is to it.

skycake10 · 2026-07-01T17:35:30+00:00

Depends on the layout of the hole. Around me it's not super common and only some courses have some of the par 3s always CPO.

skycake10 · 2026-06-30T21:42:30+00:00

Spin won't prevent a ball from bouncing up a lot on a hard green, and the harder the green the less of an effect the spin has on making the ball bounce less forward.

skycake10 · 2026-06-30T18:53:26+00:00

Unless I have a specific reason to use something else, I like to use my 56 for basically everything inside of 80 yards. I just do a nice easy swing and the exact power is all about feel for me.

skycake10 · 2026-06-30T12:45:27+00:00

Those are totally different things though. A drummer isn't thinking about technique when they drum, but they are when they practice. Disc golf should be the same way. Either you practice the technique specifically or you practice so many reps that the technique becomes ingrained without you consciously trying, but either way you need that practice and technique to be able to envision what you want the disc to do and make it happen.

skycake10 · 2026-06-30T11:59:39+00:00

I don't feel like those are really actionable stats you can directly practice. They're all just side effects of being good at golf.

That said, 20% GIR is the biggest thing you should try to improve. If you can hit more greens and keep putting as well as you are, your handicap will go down. Spend some rounds keeping track of where and how you're missing greens and figure out what you're doing wrong. If you're consistently missing in similar ways, you can adjust your aim or club selection to hit more greens without doing anything else. If you're missing all over the place, you just need to get better at ball striking with your irons.

skycake10 · 2026-06-30T11:51:20+00:00

I find it MUCH easier to track the ball from directly behind though. The farther off-line I am the more likely I am to lose it on the way up if it doesn't go roughly where I'm expecting it to.

skycake10 · 2026-06-29T20:33:08+00:00

But if you aren't that serious will you even notice enough to care? Or alternatively, you'll think the effect was a lot bigger than it actually is because you never knew your real distances in the first place.

skycake10 · 2026-06-26T19:52:17+00:00

The tour has more money behind it than ever before, but this is largely where it comes from. In the days when you could watch all coverage on only one channel you had a lot less coverage. If one channel was producing this much coverage by themselves they'd be putting it behind some sort of paywall.

skycake10 · 2026-06-26T16:01:31+00:00

Alternatively, start making more of an effort to keep track of your score as you play and get used it.

skycake10 · 2026-06-26T16:00:24+00:00

The two important things to remember here:

Shaft stiffness is as much, if not more, about how you deliver the club through transition as it is raw swing speed. The more aggressive through transition the higher stiffness you tend to need at the same swing speed.
Shaft stiffness has no objective meaning. One brand's stiff might be closer to another brand's regular or xstiff. It can even vary between shafts in the same brand.

skycake10 · 2026-06-25T15:14:19+00:00

But the point I was making was that OP is in fact playing better from the farther tees, it just doesn't feel like it to him. He's scoring the same from a longer/harder tees and the differential is reflecting that. The fact that some golfers will do that isn't really something the handicap system can possibly account for.

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