Keeping mum on the range

[dak4n6]

I have given advice on the course frequently, but never on the range. Almost all of it has been to some of my really bad buddies, but sometimes if I get paired up with someone who is consistently having a horrible time (whiffing, chunking, sculling, etc), I will offer something that is just meant to keep them from eating the barrel of a gun. It's always something simple and general that can just help them make decent contact based on what I'm seeing, like 'slow it down some', or 'just take a half swing'. I remember one guy who was swinging at mach 7 and barely making contact and I told him to just slow it down a bit, and he went from almost whiffing to almost parring every hole.

[lostmyballs]

I dislike getting advice from people at the range. They always think they know "the fix", and it just distracts me from what I was working on to begin with.

[ladders11]

There are some awful swings at the range, especially if you go to one with putt-putt, ice cream, batting cages and go-karts.  On a busy summer night, you could roll up with a bus full of pros and it would not matter much.

[newtogolf]

People practice at the range or at least they should be.  Someone watching me would have no idea if I just had a lousy swing or was over-exaggerating a new swing movement I was trying to include in my regular swing.  In either case I'd likely be hitting some lousy looking shots and someone might be tempted to try to "fix" me.  It's for that reason I never offer unsolicited advice.

I place it on the same level as congratulating an overweight woman on her pregnancy without knowing for certain she is pregnant, it might be a nice gesture or it could go horribly wrong.