Course/Swing Management Question

[$2 Nassau]

So your typical ball flight is right to left (draw for a righty). You notice on your first 2 or 3 tee shots (tee shots using driver or 3 wood specifically) that you are hitting a slight block to the right. Since you are aiming down the right side for your draw, the blocks are landing in the right rough, or worse.

Do you:

(A) Keep aiming down the right side and stick with your normal ball flight, eventually you will loosen up and probably start hitting that shot.

(B) Looks like the swing you brought to the course that day is not your typical one...so play it as such for the entire round. Alter your set up and aim down the left side of the fairway, assuming that block will land you in the fairway or close to it.

[Franco!]

I think that you should still aim the way you normally want to.
If you aim down the left side, you'll feel off line and your brain will recognize this and you might block it worse or slice it.
Just try and put a good swing on it, everything will fall back in place.

[cbe_golfer]

I think most people will tell you to play the swing you brought to the course on the day. But I am bad at doing that. I should really go hit a few balls before every round...I normally find out after two or three holes what I have that day.

[$2 Nassau]

I think most people will tell you to play the swing you brought to the course on the day. But I am bad at doing that. I should really go hit a few balls before every round...I normally find out after two or three holes what I have that day.

I usually do hit a few balls but it doesn't always translate to the course. Although if don't have the time I will spend whatever time I have putting and chipping so sometimes I am going out there blind.

[mikelz]

So your typical ball flight is right to left (draw for a righty). You notice on your first 2 or 3 tee shots (tee shots using driver or 3 wood specifically) that you are hitting a slight block to the right. Since you are aiming down the right side for your draw, the blocks are landing in the right rough, or worse.

If I show up with a fadey/slicey shot, I'm done for.

If I try to allow for it, my drawish/hookish ole regular shot comes out at the worst possible times.

[goblue107501]

I have run into this problem also from time to time. I will usually just aim closer to the center so that I have a better chance to hit the fairway either way the ball may tail off.

[lolzzlolzz]

I want to play consistent golf. If I'm hitting it way right, I will still aim down the middle. I don't look to fix the outcome, but the problem in my swing that is causing it. Telling a slicer to "aim right" is the worst advice you can give in golf.

Sure it may ruin the round for me but in the long run I want to know that I have a swing that will be reliable day after day.

[beisenhauer]

Telling a slicer to "aim right" is the worst advice you can give in golf.

It certainly is. Aiming left would probably work much better.

But seriously, I tend to play with whatever swing I brought to the course that day, with the caveat that one bad swing does not a round make. My normal shot off the tee with anything other than the driver is a draw (of varying degree), so I tend to make sure that I've got room left of my target. (It's the opposite with the driver.) If I slice my first tee shot with a 3-wood, I don't necessarily assume that I'll slice it all day long until I start to repeat that result.

[lolzzlolzz]

It certainly is. Aiming left would probably work much better.

Oops i meant to say left

[cbe_golfer]

I want to play consistent golf. If I'm hitting it way right, I will still aim down the middle. I don't look to fix the outcome, but the problem in my swing that is causing it. Telling a slicer to "aim left ( u meant)" is the worst advice you can give in golf.

No less a person than Tiger Woods has said that the days he really struggles are the ones where he has a two way miss going.

That implies that HE plays the swing he brings to the course that day. So that is not bad advice. If you want to fix the swing, do it later at the range or go see a pro. Fixing it in the middle of a round is about the worst advice you can give anyone trying to shoot a number which is what most of us try to do on a golf course.