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The best bit of advice from a random paired golfer....

TheNatural

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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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birdiemachine Established Member

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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

ZaPPPa

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.

TyCobb Well Established Member

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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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Norm3333 Well Established Member

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Ian said:
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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Grndslmhttr3 Great Member

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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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  Norm3333 said:
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.

JCDot33 Well Established Member

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

  TheNatural said:
... 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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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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