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TheNatural

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TheNatural Dedicated Member

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Somebody you dont know and were paired with

what was the best piece of advice you remember getting from them ? Golf advice...

chriskzoo Great Member

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I forget where I heard it, but it has made me a "money" driver of the ball.

The only thing that matters is how your club is moving from the ball to ~1 foot in front of it. I generally play a straight to fade ball flight and the only thing I concentrate on is picking a spot about 6 inches in front of my ball and making sure my clubhead passes from the ball to that spot.

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GDWindowpane Well Established Member

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Don't turn anything down but your collar...

Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to...

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flopdarock Great Member

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"dont get the chicken at the turn"
best advice ever...
as far as golf advice from a playing partner...
"there's a hazard right after the dogleg"
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Slim 11 Well Established Member

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On very short pitches a guy suggested that I swing as if i were tossing the ball up on to the green with my hand, like pitching a softball. I wish that were more descriptive but I got what he was saying...works for me.

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This guy I was playing with at Poppy Hills was having a hell of a day. He gave me a putting tip and I started going Brad Faxon on the greens. Turns out he was on the nationwide tour.

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Ian Well Established Member

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my coach always tells me what club to use when i play with him, once in a while i ignoren him, he always ends up being right


ZaPPPa Well Established Member

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It wasn't advice, but it was the thing that helped my game best. At the first hole the random guy goes: "I like your swing, good quiet legs on your backswing."

It gave me a bunch of confidence and made me play so much better. My golfing buddy, who is a 8hc, would criticize my swing all the time and it would kill my game. This one sentence helped more than all the (constructive) criticism I had before.

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I got paired up with 2 guys, one who was a 2 handicapper and the other one was a scratch golfer. I hit my ball into a green side bunker and struggled to get it out. I kept jabbing at the ball and it went nowhere. The scratch golfer told me to follow all the way through for sand shots just like I would with an iron. Ever since then I get out of bunkers in one shot now. :)

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Ian, did you read the original post?

"Somebody you dont know and were paired with what was the best piece of advice you remember getting from them ? Golf advice... " Unreal. Someone you DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my coach always tells me what club to use when i play with him, once in a while i ignoren him, he always ends up being right

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TheNatural Dedicated Member

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Ian, did you read the original post?

Its ok, Im not writing a book.... But IAN should take a one post penalty with distance...

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Probably when one of my opponents just tells me to relax. I sometimes get really tense when I swing.

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"Open your front foot up a little bit."

Helped my swing a ton. I'm just a tad duck footed but forced myself to learn my stance with a straight foot. It made it so I couldnt rotate through as far because it was like my leg was already part way rotated yet I was straight on. If anybody understands my little babble there...

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Ian, did you read the original post?

Calm down bud. Don't need to get into an internet war over something silly.

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Pat007 Well Established Member

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I tend to ignore the advice given to me by strangers. Unless they're Hank Haney or David Leadbetter I can't see how a pure stranger can analyse my swing and give me valid advice without knowing me, my tendencies, etc. I prefer to tune them out, like I tend to ignore the instruction articles in Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, etc.

Also, just because someone is a low-handicapper, doesn't mean they're a good teacher. Alot of times, better players go on feel and have a hard time putting into words what they feel and what the person they're helping should feel.

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Crap, the Dr. already beat me to it ... but here it goes anyway ...

... what was the best piece of advice you remember getting from them ? Golf advice...

Take up bowling becasue with a hook like that you'd be a natural!

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TheNatural Dedicated Member

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one of the first times out ,,,,i hit the green but it bounced off and over a road,,,a local subdivision,,,i was about to play the ball and a paired player said that stroke would be illegal in the state of PA please drop this side of the road....


I didnt want to go to golf jail so...I obeyed that law...

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