Best Advice Ever?

[DBake]

This topic is inspired from the topic "Worest Advice Ever".

What is the best advice you have ever recieved while practicing or playing?

[DBake]

The best advice I ever recieved is to take a step back and squat down like a catcher to pick some grass before an difficult shot or hitting balls consistantly on the range. I guess the more joints that are able to bend help take away and release tension in muscles.

[golf_junkie27]

1) Always take the time to align yourself properly.

2) Have a pre-shot routine and stick with it.

3) Have positive thoughts, feel good about yourself and then take your swing.

All seem simple yet I had to learn the hard way.

[neudi]

Don't start playing golf, it only causes heartache, I didn't listen lol.

[ScottySnapps]

Develop the ability to align yourself properly. I went to see my current coach for the furst time - he had me hit 6 or 7 shots, laid a shaft along my "line", and showed me I was aligned 40 yards to the right of my target bon a 150 yard shot !! It's true... - I dropped 4 strokes off my hc in n a month after this...

[g-funk13]

Hit down on the ball. Doesn't work for everything, but it helped me a lot when I started out.

[WilsonsRBest]

'Club throwing' from the book Extraordinary Golf by Shoemaker. It is amazing what a change in perspective can do.

[BritBoy]

Stop thinking so much and just let it happen..... good advice but very tough to follow

[iacas]

Anything Bob Rotella has ever said.

For any serious golfer, I think the best tips almost have to be the mental ones.

[TourSpoon]

  iacas said:

Anything Bob Rotella has ever said.

After loaning my copy of "Golf is not a Game of Perfect" to someone years ago, I was looking for it and finally ordered a copy off Ebay and I have been reading it for the last two weeks. The best tip for me was to pick the smallest target (ie not the palm trees but a palm tree) and when you start your swing picture the target in your mind.

[BritBoy]

  iacas said:

Anything Bob Rotella has ever said.

Exactly. Learn to let go, get out of your own way (Istill cant figure out what that one means though) and all that stuff.

[giantbear]

  golf_junkie27 said:

1) Always take the time to align yourself properly.

These are the best i have heard as well, the first is a big problem for me. Another tidbit i picked up from watching Tiger is something he does when reading his line, cupping his hands around his eyes to shield the sun. Helps me to read the greens.

[marpr]

Relax and take your time.

[lamebums]

"Don't worry about it."

Usually it won't sink in, but for the one time out of ten it does, it can help a quivering bag of jello recompose himself before his next shot.

[Crafty]

  TourSpoon said:

After loaning my copy of "Golf is not a Game of Perfect" to someone years ago, I was looking for it and finally ordered a copy off Ebay and I have been reading it for the last two weeks.

I love that piece of advice. The targets that I pick now are so miniscule that they help me to forget about the fairway because I am so focused on hitting that target.

As for the best advice EVER, keep your head down... It works wonders.

[rookie]

"Don't go out in the rain with your socks on."



Actually, taught to have the same pre shot routine for every shot seems to have helped me the most so far.

[stuartaustin]

KEEP YOUR HEAD STILL!!!!!!!.......darnit........

Even though it came to me harsh, it was the best advice I have yet received

[Clubswinger21]

Everytime you address the ball, before you start your back swing say 3 words slowly in your head. "Control, control, control" I read that in Golf Magazine apparently alot of pros do this. I have an issue with tempo and its helped me slow things down. Its amazing what words can do for your psychy.