How to improve hand-eye coordination

[khale]

I know most athletes are born with good hand-eye coordination. I have met one young guy who just picks up golf for a year and he was a single digit golfer. He is also excellent in every sport he plays. Most of us are not like that. What are some tips for improving my hand-eye coordination?
Thanks,

[JML22]

no way he's a legit single capper
he's probably guesstimating and not counting obs and giving himself mulligans
Its very unlikely that you just fall into a consistent swing right away

[James_Black]

I know most athletes are born with good hand-eye coordination. I have met one young guy who just picks up golf for a year and he was a single digit golfer. He is also excellent in every sport he plays. Most of us are not like that. What are some tips for improving my hand-eye coordination?

you need to practice.

Take up tennis, that required good hand-eye coordination. i don't think there's any quick way to improve it.

[Scott_K]

Practice juggling a ball on your wedge.

[shortstop20]

no way he's a legit single capper

it's very possible for a good athlete to do that.

[James_Black]

Practice juggling a ball on your wedge.

that's true.

A pro told me that. It took me a bit of practice to get good at it.

[saevel25]

Hand eye coordination is mostly genetic, most people who play golf need to rely on muscle memory not hand eye coordination.

[JML22]

Its possible but not very likely at all
Very athletic people can start out in sports better than others, but it still takes training to be a single digit
Its not like an athletic person can pickup a baseball and start throwing 90 +
I chose baseball because its an unatural motion, just like golf is.
I'm a very athletic person, and i had lessons when i was a kid, picked up golf last year, had lots of lessons from CPGA friends and i just dont see it happening.
I know some other varsity athletes who picked it up this year, one of them cheats like crazy and barely makes mid 80s
like i said, no way a single digit in the first year without some sort of mulligan/cheating

[Blades4me]

I know most athletes are born with good hand-eye coordination. I have met one young guy who just picks up golf for a year and he was a single digit golfer. He is also excellent in every sport he plays. Most of us are not like that. What are some tips for improving my hand-eye coordination?

Play'n darts or pool/snooker with help the old right to left ratio, (hand/eye coordination)

[wrx_junki]

Bounce a tennis ball against a wall and catch while alternating hands. Didn't think juggling a ball with a club took much hand and eye coordination.

[shortstop20]

Its possible but not very likely at all

Sorry, you're wrong, because people have done it.

[bplewis24]

it's very possible for a good athlete to do that.

Sorry, you're wrong, because people have done it.

What specifically are we talking about "doing" here? Being a single-digit handicap, or just picking up some clubs and being a single-digit handicap within a relatively short period of time (like say a few months) with no prior experience?

If it's the latter, I'd say you have some burden of proof there. Who has done it? Without any examples, I'm inclined not to believe this and suggest that anybody who did it is the extremely rare exception. I feel comfortable saying this because I would be considered extremely athletic by golf standards. My ability to play football and run track paid for my college education, and of all of the guys in my circle of friends who played college and pro football, I would be considered among the best in terms of hand-eye coordination...as I was always considered that guy who was good in "every sport." Now, after taking up golf seriously about 1.5 years ago (depending on what you consider "seriously"), I have still yet to break single-digits. Now, I don't practice much nor have I ever had any lessons, but for the purposes of this conversation that makes me a better example for how good a skilled athlete can be after simply "picking up the clubs." If we're talking serious lessons and training, then that's a different thing, I suppose. But the OP made it sound like the guy just picked up clubs and was a single-digit. Brandon

[shortstop20]

A highly athletic person, if they played seriously, say dedicating 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, to practice/playing...........should be a single digit handicap within a year.

If they cannot do that, I would question whether they actually have high athletic ability or the seriousness of their practice.

[JML22]

practicing 4 hours a day 5 days a week isnt the same as picking up clubs and being a single digit
Lots of people would be single digits if they practiced that much

[shortstop20]

practicing 4 hours a day 5 days a week isnt the same as picking up clubs and being a single digit

He never said that he never practiced.

Here's the post.

I know most athletes are born with good hand-eye coordination. I have met one young guy who just picks up golf for a year and he was a single digit golfer. He is also excellent in every sport he plays. Most of us are not like that. What are some tips for improving my hand-eye coordination?

Hogan said an average person should be able to break 80 in 6 months, do so many people disagree with that too???????

[bplewis24]

A highly athletic person, if they played seriously, say dedicating 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, to practice/playing...........should be a single digit handicap within a year.

I would probably agree that that is possible.

Hogan said an average person should be able to break 80 in 6 months, do so many people disagree with that too???????

Not sure. Again it depends on the details. Most average people I know on the golf course can't break 80 and have been playing for years. I would assume that Hogan was referring to somebody who practices regularly and receives instruction.

Brandon

[nuck81]

Hogan said an average person should be able to break 80 in 6 months, do so many people disagree with that too???????

I got two months to go, and nine more strokes to lose. I better get cracking!!!

[shortstop20]

Not sure. Again it depends on the details. Most average people I know on the golf course can't break 80 and have been playing for years. I would assume that Hogan was referring to somebody who practices regularly and receives instruction.

Yes, he was referring to people whom are willing to practice meaningfully, and on a regular basis, although he did not believe instruction was necessarily needed.

Most people don't get better because they don't try to get better, they just play and keep what they have. They'll get better somewhat by playing, but without practice, they'll hit a plateau much sooner. If they're fine with that, more power to them, but they shouldn't expect to get better without putting time into it.