Bogeysaurus

What specific qualities help in golf? Just off the top of my head, for starters highly precise muscle memory. What is necessary for highly precise muscle memory? Highly functioning neural connection from your brain to your muscles. You do realize every person doesn't have equal muscular control? Highly precise coordination. A world class golfer must coordinate the large muscles of their body as well as the small muscles of their arms. All of this must be synchronized and highly repeatable. You do realize everyone doesn't have equivalent coordination right? And your last sentence really is a gem. What about human evolution would make good golfers selected? Are you kidding? Are you being intentionally obtuse now because you are being defensive as everyone points out the severe flaws in your argument? For starters even if your last sentence made a lick of sense regarding golfers being selected through evolution how would we know if they were or were not? What if Tiger Woods and his family tree does represent the apogee of golfing ability and was for some reason selected. Or what if golfers weren't selected and had they been Tiger would be but a mere mortal compared to the greats. Point, we wouldn't know, that is an absurd and inscrutable question. But your last sentence doesn't make a lick of sense anyway. Football players, basketball players, golfers, theoretical physicists nor polymaths are selected via evolution and natural selection. Genetic qualities that exist within people that might be applicable to being highly successful in those endeavors are selected though.

Exactly... it isn't rocket science understanding that the specific genetics that people are born with are applicable to different human endeavors.

I posted my distances earlier when I first started and they are increasing. I occasionally most be producing good lag and making a better stroke because yesterday I pulled my PW out for my 125 yard from green shot and flew the green bad, 140 yard beauty. Still average probably 120ish but looks like my swing is getting better. Also am noticing that my short irons like my 9 and 8 are starting to close the gap with my 7 and 6. I'm assuming this is normal as your swing improves with the easier clubs and up.

Surely all of you worked hard to grow as tall as you did. Put in the long hours to get the perfect hair color you wanted. And really did your due diligence to ensure you became well endowed . I mean natural talent is a myth so hopefully you did your homework!

Really? Show me the scientific evidence that contradicts talent. I'd love to see the experiments that over and over and over prove that talent is a myth. To the contrary the human genome has been mapped. We know what genes do what. To say genetic "talent" is a myth would be to ignore pretty much everything we know thanks to biologist and geneticist.

I went from having an ugly swing that sometimes got things done to not being able to get the ball off the ground after my first lesson. Two lessons later I was hitting the ball better than ever. Three more lessons and there were ups and downs but after 2 months of lessons and practice I'm way better than before. Granted I was a 35+ hc before and now maybe low 20s. At this point though I think time and practice is what I need coupled with videoing myself and reviewing. I know what I need to do now, just have to get myself to consistently do it. Stick with it, it'll take a few lessons but once you get out of your head it should probably help.

In my small hometown when I was growing up there were dozens of parents with gifted athletic kids that did the exact same thing with their kids in hopes they would be the next greatest, golf, tennis, basketball, football, baseball player. Some from that small town I grew up with played in college, and 1 or 2 had small stints professionally. This is one small town of tens of thousands of towns across the country. We don't hear about the ones they didn't make it, "Hey did you hear about that guy that almost was a great ____________"... There is nothing coincidental at all about Tiger Woods... He just happens to be the one of ten thousand athletes of that time with parents that fostered his abilities that was just slightly more gifted and that is why we know his story.

Yeah, must of his videos aren't actually him swinging.

Maybe I'm missing something... You are suggesting it is impressive, commendable, or inspiring that someone has the "will power" to practice golf 6 hours a day instead of working 8-10 hours a day at a JOB?

I've tried finding video of his "original swing" but no luck, do you remember where it was posted or how to find out? His swing looks decent now, curious what it started out like.

I like that. I think I'll start doing that for my full swing practice! I typically do a game at the chipping/putting area where up and down is par and I play 18 holes like that.

First one was last week during a terrible round. Saved bogey from 50-55 yards with my PW. Bounced once and rolled about a second and then disappeared.

I can mostly replay/remember 9 hole rounds, but I occasionally take a notebook and make note of GIR, fairways and putts.

I recently went through a patch where I was chunking and hitting really fat. The majority of the time when that happens to me it is because I was trying to use all arms without rotating my body. A swing thought that helps me get a proper rotating and weight forward is to focus on the feel and idea of my forward arm leading the club through the swing. For some reason this gets my body rotation in sync for me.