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By billchao ·
It is. The more drastic the change, the more foreign it will feel. I find the easiest lessons I’ve ever taken are ones I’ve already been given, just presented in a different way. For whatever reason (me) the change didn’t stick. I don’t see any reason you can’t do that while working on swing changes. Ok, so you have to ask yourself, why? Were you struggling to even make contact during the lesson while making a different backswing? Because if that’s the case, I’m surprised that the instructor left you like that. If there’s no payoff in the results, I’d hardly expect anyone to stick with it, and I wouldn’t blame them. Or maybe you’re just making new swings too fast. If you’re getting to a different position at A4, you’re going to have to learn how to get to A7 from there, too. Do it, but slower. Hit driver shots that go 150 yards, 100 yard 6i shots, whatever. As long as you’re doing the thing that you’re trying to change successfully. That can still be your meditation. Hyper focus on making a change. You shouldn’t completely lose the ability to hit the ball while making a change. That’s still kind of weird to me. I’ve made a lot of changes over the years and I can definitely say patience is a necessity. One day you’ll just naturally do it; there won’t be a lightbulb moment that says I got it. You might not know the exact moment but if you stick with it, it will happen. QFT That’s just weird to me. Why care what anyone else thinks about your swing, especially on the driving range? -
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By ChetlovesMer ·
“Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade." by Matthew Kelly from the book The Long View” @Vinsk This is a great topic. I know this doesn't apply to you specifically, but I'm suspecting others will read this. I know tons of golfers who go for one lesson. Come back feeling like they've learned something. They don't practice or break down what they learned and then revert back to where they were or possibly worse. Then they complain. "Taking lessons doesn't work." It takes time, commitment, and patience to make "REAL" changes. I know I suffer from at least 3 major problems that come back to haunt me all the time. My big problem is, I can only work on one of them... sometimes 2 at a time. However, if I don't do all 3, it actually can make my actual swing worse. It's either all 3 or it can go off the rails. So, I'm at the range the other day. Working through my 3 different issues. I'm doing it one at a time if course. First slo-mo swing, then faster without the ball and finally hitting a ball. Okay I do this for 5 to 8 balls. Then I switch to working on the second thing for a while. Same procedure, 5-8 balls, then I work on the 3rd thing the same way. All of "shots" I'm hitting stink out loud. So, near the end I kind of felt like I was getting all 3 things going at once. Started hitting beautiful shots for maybe the last 5 or so balls. I'm packing up my stuff and the guy next to me goes. "Hey, you finally got it together there at the end." I didn't know he was watching me but I mumbled something like "Yeah, golf is hard." Then he asks me. "What change did you make there at the end to start hitting those good shots?" So, I had to get into a long explanation of how I was working on 3 different things and fixing any one of them doesn't really work until I get all 3 fixed. He's like "Oh, I could never do that." I was confused and asked him to explain. He told me he is totally unwilling to hit a bunch of crappy shots on the range. He said he doesn't want to look like a bad golfer so he only makes slight tweaks on his swing and doesn't do anything that will make his shots "appear" bad. I found that interesting as I never really notice anything about the way anyone on the range is hitting balls. Unless they are doing something really out of the ordinary, which may catch my eye. I couldn't care less if you are hitting a ball off a tee with your putter. I left him with that and headed home. -
By RayG ·
Yes, that is true... NOW. Previous to the renovation for that first Open. If you were 5 yards off the fairway you weren't going to FIND your ball, much less play it. You had 1st cut of 2-3 inches, second cut was 4-6", then it was thick fescue pretty much to the tree line. And that was 2-3 FEET high by the middle of summer. They got rid of most of it or thinned it back for spectator access. You can't have 50,000 people wandering around in a tick infested nightmare for a week. The ONLY place I believe they left it was between 10 and 11 where spectators couldn't get to. Now, the further off the fairway you are, the better. The hill right of the 8th Green was essentially a forest of fescue- no using the slope to come back down to the green. they cleaned that all out for seating as well. Now- a ball can run back down to the greenside area- if you miss the tree. they also took away a LOT of trees- especially in that triangle area between 1,17, and 18 for hospitality tents. Then put some back after. And took them out again before the second one. -
By boogielicious ·
Change is hard. I wish I had answers but I think we just have to keep at it until the change feels normal. I think I will eventually get my change but it may be 6 months from now. This is a good topic for discussion though. Thanks for posting.
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