CoachinPA

Ha Ha! I've had the reverse thoughts plenty of times when on the golf course. Watching a group of golfers hacking it left, right, long, short, fat, thin, off trees, in lakes, in bunkers, in bunkers again.... I've wanted to scream "Get off the damn Course and Go Practice Golf!!"

Just curious about your golf leagues. Here is info on 2 of mine: 1. Jeffersonville Golf Course, Norristown PA, USA 19403 2. Men's and Women's league 3. USGA handicaps 4. 9 hole League every tuesday 3pm 5. 30 members but only 12 reliable ones. 1. Traveling League in Southeast PA 2. Men's 3. Custom Handicaps 4. 18 hole league every other saturday 5. 16 members.

So title tells the short story. Long story is my tee shots sucked and my putting was horrific. I figure I had something close to 45 putts counting putts from just off the green as well as those actually on the green. What a debacle.... greens were FAST. I just never adjusted, kept blowing putts by by 10+ feet. Was playing proV1s. Other than putting I was hitting my driver thin and included a topped shot. I have been having trouble getting my club to the ball with the longer clubs. Not sure why, It's possible im doing a squat and coming out of it as i turn. Any ideas what would be the most likely culprit for thins and tops?

These for sure.

Part of it might just be advertising. All we can realistically do at work is put up a flyer on a cork board. Word of mouth has not been super productive. Maybe I should post on craigs list or something.

My Golf course does the same.

Interesting opinion. I have seen many, many 9 hole leagues. These tend to be the after work leagues.

Bringing this up again.... My mother in law showed me a newspaper article pretty much detailing the point of this thread. it was saying that in the last 10 years golf has lost like 5 million players ( im assuming worldwide). here is an example of things they are trying.... 15 inch cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/score-15-inch-wide-cup-open-golf-article-1.1761994

It still works, it's a cosmetic problem at this point. So i guess its constructed well as it survived a 140 MPH blow to the casing.

Got my Radar!. Took some practice swings... right around 108Mph. did get it to 113 when i went as hard as I could, but I felt unbalanced. Anywho I started swinging with the headless club and tried putting some screws on it for just a little more weight. Was getting that into the 140's So guess what i did then! i started doing one arm swings and lost my spatial relationship to the radar. BOOM goes the plastic! LoL i shattered a hole about the size of a golf ball right into the radar and sent it flying. Ironically it still works!

You hit one of my big points. I think its caused by many factors. One of the biggest is that if you're not willing to work 60hrs a week they can find someone else who will. It would only be an option if everyone said I'm not working more than 40 a week. Of course that likely won't happen, although I could see at some point in the future the government setting a lower work hour standard law, forcing companies to hire more employees for the same set of hours rather than have 1 employee work them all. So 2 people to work 6 hours instead of 1 person working 12... I feel that's where we are going... like pretty soon an entire walmart will be run by 3 people...LoL

Started off shooting 120's. in about about 3 years I shot 69 (all time best). How? I played 5-6 days a week when it was warm enough to do so. Even played once when it was in the 20's and snow was on the ground in places. of course I was 15-18, golf was practically free.... free with HS and College and 6 bucks for as much golf as you could play on the weekends.... (those were the days....)

Right. So the obvious next question would be why are there no young people with golf as a priority? It's no different than the original topic of the thread. I'm bringing up observations from 15 years of league golf. These are people who "say" they would like to play, but when it comes time to put up or shut up they always have an excuse as to why they cant.

That's the point of the thread. Plans? ideas? etc etc... I'm going to try some of the overspeed work posted earlier along with maybe some medicine ball twists. i'll document results once my Radar gets in from Amazon.

Yeah, ultimately this thread was about fitness and exercise, not technique

Agree 100% trying to add power later can almost be like trying to learn to swing again for the first time

Good point about clubbing down. Length does offer that option

Fascinating... The thread got hot for a while. I'll put my two cents in on the distance versus accuracy debate. All things equal, being able to swing harder and hit it further makes a big difference. I imagine a good example would be having a player like Annika Sorenstam play versus the men. We all know she has great technique and ball striking/ control but ultimately the Distance that the men play at is too much. Now she beat many of those guys she was going against which is a testament to her accuracy and control but you have the big hitters getting away with much more simply because they can hit it 50+ yards further. Hitting it long is a blessing and a curse at times.... being able to hit it long enables you to more easily recover from mistakes BUT hitting it long can also CAUSE your mistakes to be magnified. I've always been of the school that its much harder to teach Length off the tee than it is to teach accuracy. So swing at full speed all the time and we'll work on your control after

Update: I ordered a radar sensor. Same one in the video above. Already have a headless shaft. Just gotta make myself something in between like that guy had in the video. I'll try to keep updating this with stats and maybe some video.

Good points. I thought about this as well - the technology distractions and overall rising costs of digital life. Ironically my father loves baseball, pushed me into baseball, played baseball to death into his late 40's early 50's. I don't like watching baseball, i'll play it in a pick up game but I would never join a league. No one in my family played golf. I started cause a buddy of mine took me out on the course when i was 15. Shot 122 that day.... But now my father is a golfaholic once i started playing in High school and college. So yeah i can see that sometimes kids also want to distance themselves from parents

Pennsylvania. Northeast US

I also have noticed a "if I'm not good at it immediately, i'm not going to do it" mentality among the younger players

Oh there is no assumption... I know these people. All unmarried. I think it has more to do with what rkim says "It happens, especially, to younger, eager career minded folks. Give them 10 more years of corporate America and they will change."

Still doesn't address my point that If I can do it for 14 years and people before me have done it for 30 years why can't we get new people from the same company? We all have the same rules. These guys are just terrified to even try it. Believe me we are not working on infrastructure, health or time critical stuff.......

Agree completely, Like i said earlier. I'm one to believe that if you want it enough you will make it happen. I'm not blaming the corporations, I'm blaming the employees for not keeping work/life balance.