what was that ONE lesson for you?

[bones75]

Have you had that ONE breakthrough lesson / swingthought / piece of advice?  Would be cool if it answers were standardized enough to make this a poll in the future.  Mbe ur pre/post handicaps or something would be helpful too.

Me: Activating hips, over the course of a month I prob went from a 15 to a 9 (ofc official handicap lags, as i didn't play 20 rounds).

[Keith White]

My very first lesson.  I was sitting on a golf club balcony absolutely shattered after low hooking the ball around an easy course for 115 strokes.  No matter how much I played I could not hit it properly.  It was time to stop playing or find a solution.  I booked a starter set of three lessons and was immediately given a proper grip, and things started to click, with a good few hours on the range.  I had a pal who started playing at the same time, he didn't get any lessons and soon gave up.  It was the turning point for me.

[Patch]

I was asked to assume I was at bat on a bseball diamond, wanting to hit the ball to center field. Then just swing the club head to right field. This put me on the correct club head swing path. Best advice I ever recieved. 

[Keith White]

9 hours ago, Patch said:

I was asked to assume I was at bat on a bseball diamond, wanting to hit the ball to center field. Then just swing the club head to right field. This put me on the correct club head swing path. Best advice I ever recieved. 

Sounds like a similar idea to one that a friend of mine suggested, and he had lessons from Ian Poulter.  He said to point the putt line on the ball at 2 o'clock and position myself straight down the middle.  Then hit through the putt line as if your trying to send the ball 2 o'clock to the right.  It worked.  

[Ernest Jones]

13 minutes ago, Keith White said:

Sounds like a similar idea to one that a friend of mine suggested, and he had lessons from Ian Poulter.  He said to point the putt line on the ball at 2 o'clock and position myself straight down the middle.  Then hit through the putt line as if your trying to send the ball 2 o'clock to the right.  It worked.  

If I were to do that today I would push those putts all day! However, if I were to that before @iacas helped me with a putter fitting, it may have helped. At the end of the day, I'd rather have a putter I can aim properly than have to trick myself into hitting it online. 

[Patch]

1 hour ago, Keith White said:

Sounds like a similar idea to one that a friend of mine suggested, and he had lessons from Ian Poulter.  He said to point the putt line on the ball at 2 o'clock and position myself straight down the middle.  Then hit through the putt line as if your trying to send the ball 2 o'clock to the right.  It worked.  

I must have miss read the title of this thread. I was not talking about putting, but full swings. 

Never thought about it helping with putts. 

It helped me to eliminate an over the top, outside to inside swing path. I hit very few slices after that tip. 

[bones75]

42 minutes ago, Patch said:

I must have miss read the title of this thread. I was not talking about putting, but full swings. 

I think I read your post as intended.  Using the line on the ball used for putting, but instead lining up the ball and imagining swinging through that line on your swing.  I also had a similar tip that helped me when I first started playing.

I suppose you could have a breakthrough on your putting too tho, but think most of us would have a game-changing tip on our swing.

[Keith White]

8 hours ago, bones75 said:

I think I read your post as intended.  Using the line on the ball used for putting, but instead lining up the ball and imagining swinging through that line on your swing.  I also had a similar tip that helped me when I first started playing.

I suppose you could have a breakthrough on your putting too tho, but think most of us would have a game-changing tip on our swing.

Correct, not a putting tip.  You use the line at 2 o'clock off the tee.