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How do you know what flex you need in your driver? I'm a new golfer as of Oct. 2007 and I purchased a stiff flex Taylormade R580. I'm very happy with it, but then somebody was telling me that because my swing speed is only about ~92mph that I should have a regular flex. Here's what I'm thinking ... I'm only 26 here, just started, and I'm pretty sure I in the future my swing speed will be increasing, at least I hope it will. Should I stay stiff flex or ... how do you really know?

I've been playing around with how to really control my putter. As a righty, I've been told that you should use your left hand as your speed hand and right hand to stabilize/aim the putter. Honestly I've been doing it completely opposite. To me, if I use my right hand to control the tempo of the putter and left hand to aim, it kind of gives me the sensation of rolling the ball towards the whole with my right hand, thus, yielding better results. As a new golfer I don't want to ingrain any flawed mechanics in to my head that might inhibit performance years down the road. So anybody think there's anything wrong with this?

Yeah I actually did that the other day at the driving range. Oddly for me, I had an inside-out swing AND and open face at impact so not only was I slicing it, the ball was already starting out to the right! This really helped me straighten out my swing, well, as much as you can for a new golfer like myself

I thought so :) It just makes me feel better when I hear somebody agree with me haha.

I've been golfing for 4 months and suffered a horrible slice until recently. Today I tried something different and that was instead of still trying to rip the ball 300 yards every time, (did it once, have no idea how with my horrible swing back then) I figured if I really want to improve I'll slow my club head speed way way down and just try and drop it 200 yards or so. My thought process in this is that if I can stay straight and hit fairways, who cares if they only go 180-230 yards with the driver, they're in the fairway and not slicing 50 yards off of it. Should I keep this routine for a few months and slowly try to increase club head speed over time for the extra distance? Or should I stay trying to swing fast so that rhythm of speed starts to be ingrained in my mind, and try and work out the flaws with the faster swing? My club head speed was clocked at and average of ~90MPH about 3 weeks ago. Today I felt I was dropping as low as 75-80 but hey, I hit 4/9 fairways and the other 4 (1 par 3 on front 9) were 1-2 yards off in the rough but pretty good lies. Now if I didn't 3 putt everything .... ;)

haha ... if I ever go on an amateur tour I'll use that rule :)

I seem to struggle with this as it's hard for me to make pure contact with the ball. When it's in the rough, no problem, but on the fairway, I tend to hit an inch or so behind the ball and skull it across the green, or give it a little 2 yard nudge and have to try it again. Any recommended drills I can do in my back yard or living room that could help with better ball striking in the short grass of the fairway? It seems it's just less forgiving. Or perhaps, should I not be using a pitching wedge from ~15-20 yards out?

Hello! I'm a 26 y/o Nursing student. Found this forum from a Google search and fell in love with it. I'm a new golfer as of October, 2007 and absolutely fell in love with the game. Hoping to shave some strokes off from the information I can dig up here ;)

http://www.beartracetravel.com/TrailDesc.asp?ID=2 The Bear Trace @ Chattanooga, TN

I'm a Nursing student and work at Brown Acres Golf Course.

It's really a difficult decision. Jack didn't have the technology Tiger does now. So you can say that Jack may have been the greater golfer because he wasn't able to hook himself up to computers and analyze his swing on high speed cameras. But then again, time's change, and Tiger has all this technology to brutally break down his swing and find any and all mechanical flaws (is there any left??). If you take Tiger now, and Jack in his prime, I think Tiger would win. But put Tiger back in the 70's, and maybe Jack would come out on top. Who knows? I voted for Tiger ;)