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By Shindig ·
I'm glad you see the virtue of distance over fairways. The latter are overrated, and as your full swing improves (good on you for focusing on full swing with 65% of your practice, that's about the right fraction), you'll get those fairways, too, as your dispersion will decrease, even with the longer shot ... and that's ignoring that your driver is probably more forgiving than your fairway woods. I do want ask something about the fourth paragraph. Since you're practicing driver, I would bet your iron shots are improving too, even more than the 15% practice time you're putting in (since you're still working on full swing 65% of the time, and that's assuming none of your "short game" practice is full swing mechanics). Are your misses getting better, relative to where they were from the same distance in the recent past? I'll bet they are. I would also bet that as your full swing improves (and as you're closer to the green on your second shot than you were when hitting non-driver off the tee), you're getting better at missing the green in a preferred spot. Congrats on the first sub-90 round in competition. That's always a special moment. Andy has this figured out -- which makes us all happy. Anyone else reading this far that isn't sure what I meant about practice time, please check out the thread linked in the second post of this thread (the "65/20/15 rule"). -
By Shindig ·
Day 162. I forget if the official rules (the first post doesn't say) include golf-focused working out, but I'm counting it. Fit for Golf, in-season, "workout #3." Substituted barbell press for dumbbell press, as I was doing the largest dumbbells I had and easily getting to 15 reps before. I discovered I may have been doing press wrong for quite some time after watching Mike's video, so I reset to bar (first set), bar (second set), bar + 10 lbs (third set). I haven't picked up a golf club today other than for stretching / dynamic warm-up purposes. -
By Darkfrog ·
Day 9: Did some driver practice; static stuff and then some almost golf balls working on dynamic stuff. -
By Andy Capped ·
Prioritising driver practice in the last 4 weeks or so is part of a practice plan I've been implementing to get better. And I really feel its starting to pay off. I just had my best ever round of 9 holes yesterday evening with a 40 (daily handicap is 15 at this course so its not particularly challenging), and on the weekend I broke 90 for the first time in competition with a 89 and 35 stableford points (playing handicap 17). I went through a period of months using my woods off the tee, but after doing a lot of reading into strokes gained and similar stats I'm now convinced in the merit of gaining distance off the tee as opposed to just focusing on hitting fairways. My driving hasn't been amazing, I'm hitting less 40% of fairways, but most of the time its staying in play or at least giving me a chance of advancing my second shot closer to the hole, and overall is giving me a better scoring average per hole compared to my woods. My good drives are getting around 240m down there, compared to about 200m with my 3 wood. I'll keep working on my driver with a lot of block practice as I feel this is the best way to utilise range time - simulating tee box conditions is a lot more attainable on the range than continually playing approach shots off a perfect lie, which Im finding has much less transfer to my actual game. Correlating to my scoring improvements has also been putting in hours of short game practice. Im making more up and down, and am not afraid to miss the green anymore. This has also been huge. So at the moment my practice can be divided up like this: Driver: 50% Approach shots: 15% Short game: 35% Putting: to be honest - 0% lol. In fact, Ive felt just not overthinking my putting has helped me. -
By Big Lex ·
Day 21: Today was two separate sessions, morning and evening. The morning session was 3-9 swings only, but getting in the delivery position, "pumping," and then going to the finish. Foam balls were used and then real balls. I was concentrating on solid contact. In the evening, it was more 3-9 swings, a bit longer than that actually, but a bit slower speed. I was concentrating on synchronizing body rotation and hand movement.
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