golf-noob-bruce

To answer the question posed in the title: No. I think being compulsive about your routine makes it more difficult to adapt to things outside of your control.

A little cryptic maybe?

Should be a poll! I vote irons. (Yes, I seriously neglect putting.)

Yeah, just guessing, but maybe they didn't have a close up shot of the ball going in when she did that, and just cut something in later. Judging by her reaction I think she did actually sink it.

Um...

This does wonders for me. Just ensuring I line up with the club face square and my body aligned no more than 10 degrees right has a major impact.

Not even close.

Sorry, I still don't get it. So if the differences between good and bad swings are immeasurable, what do you measure to verify that you're making a better swing?

If you're referring to how his hands move away from his body at the takeaway, then I disagree. Good golfers just don't do that.

If I had to ask someone else to make this decision for me and were given the choice between a) making a decision based on one relatively simple statistical rule or b) a professional making a gut call based on untold hours of practice, experience and situation specific factors which we are almost completely unaware of, I'm going to go with b every single time. The suggestion that we somehow know better than he did what decision to make is very difficult to defend in my opinion. BTW, I don't really understand the stat you quoted. Any chance you could explain it in a bit more detail? Speaking about the stats specifically though, I'd be interested to see what the actual measured statistical difference is between laying up from the distance he did, and choosing to go for it instead?

What was your handicap when you started?

Pretty modest goals this year: 1. Break 100 2. Take a few lessons specifically on hitting my driver.

Latest blog and he's still going on and on about equipment. You better golfers out there please help me here. I believe good golfers are good, almost irrespective of equipment (within reason, of course). Is that your experience?

Same here. I'll watch meandmygolf vids if they have specific golf instruction stuff I'm interested in, but there's just not much personality on camera to make me come back for more. Parfield's stuff I watch mostly for entertainment value.

It's colloquially called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion.