My good buddy and I like to play once a week whenever possible. I fully admit he is a better scorer than I am. I'll come in around 90 and he about 86 by average.
I love the nuances of the proper swing /short game mechanics while and trying to emulate proper techniques. He on the other hand is a purely feel player who (admirably) understands his unusual swing and is able to reproduce it often enough to keep the ball in play and scramble to par more times than not. Usually my only severance is that I'm told how good my mechanics are. That's little solace at the end of each round of course.
I honestly believe that ultimately I would be the better player if we both had the same professional instruction; that somehow I'd be viewed as 'a better golfer' regardless of scoring ability...that somehow I need less instruction to be a 6 handicapper than him. Neither of us ever had lessons but everyone agrees I have 'the swing ability' while he has 'the scorer's ability'.
Most 9-5 folks with a family don't have the time to take lessons and put in the practice necessary to take it to the 'next level'.
So what to do?.....abandoned 'the swing' and focus on the feel and 'the score'? Should I 'suck it up' and take lessons? Or just believe in my own mind that somehow I'm a more admired golf because I have a 'better' sering?
