bones75

You guys are awesome. Yeah, I played with this guy that was a red-shirt at a D1 school who was built just like me, but was smoking his drives 50-60 yards past me. But he was also 20 years younger than me, and I have always just chalked it up to youth when I see guys like that. I figure I'm at the age where I should start considering keeping the flexibility I have vs getting more flexible (although I'm probably being too paranoid about getting older.. turning 40 has it's mental barriers granted). @Patch: I also basically only use my mid & lower body in my swing (this change took me from a 25 index three years ago to ~10 today). Will check out the fitness section, but it sounds like fitness (not necessarily just bulking up) and speeding (while maintaining) my tempo may be what i should focus on for awhile. (I also get a ton of compliments on my "tempo", it's just a slowwwwww tempo). @Lihu: How am I a 10 index if i've shot in the 60's? Two reasons, and I'm wondering if anyone else is like this: (1) To be clear, i did say I "have shot in the 60's from the whites".. i.e. I don't regularly score that well, but I've gone under par twice and shot 72 once from the whites, which i play ~6 times a year when my dad visits from LA. My low round from blues is 77, avg 83 (blues are 600 yards > than the whites on my home course) and my low from the tips is 80, avg 86. These are also all on my home course (100+ rounds), which if you give me a wedge on approach, I'll very rarely go over par. (2) my index does directly correlate to the tees I've played. Despite index's factoring in ratings & slope, when I spend a few months playing from the blues (and sometimes the whites), my index drops by like 4. Then i switch playing groups and play primarily from the tips and my index goes back up ~4 strokes. I actually question the index system based on this, cuz I think you can tank ur index by playing whites. My current index is actually a 9.2 but it has varied between 8-11 this year and I just put 10 as a representation when filling out my profile, as I'm also insecure representing a lower-than-it-should-be-index based on one primarily one course over and over again.

Hi all. I'm a 40 year old golfer who's played for 10 years, but only been serious the last 3 where I've played or practiced at least twice a week. Basically my question is how important is fitness, more specifically, strength? Don't know how to say this without sounding (1) arrogant and (2) like a person who thinks he's something that he's totally not, but.. I've been told my swing form looks near perfect. I have a super slow looking swing, and have been complimented a million times about how my form looks like a pro. the problem is, I'm just not long. I'm 6'0" and skinny.. and when i say skinny, i mean SKINNY. (like you can see all my ribs through my chest) I'm not super short, I can still carry my drives like 220 (240-250 w/ roll), and bang some out further than that, and people are often amazed how long I drive based on how slow my swing looks. I also have decent control on fades/draws w/ all my clubs (roughly 50% success rate of doing what I intended), and spin the ball back on my wedges (though not excessively where's its a control problem), and have a pretty good short game. The problem is I can't really play the tips, cuz I just don't have the distance. I have shot in the 60's from the whites (~6,000 yards), where I'm hitting wedges into 60% of the greens and can reach the par 5's in two, typically shoot high 70's low 80's from the blues (~6,600 yards), but am consistently shooting high 80's from the tips (~7,100 yards) where all my friends play. So of course, my form needs improvement (as we all do), but maybe the next best way to improve my game from here is to work out? And I'm just not a work-out kinda guy. was a long distance runner when I was young, and never really lifted weights in my life. Am I fooling myself thinking my form doesn't still need improvement and take more lessons (I have taken 20 or so the last 3 years)? Or do I just need to eat a sandwich and hit the gym? My index is tied directly to what tee's I've been playing lately, so I don't really know what I truly am. I have never been a distance junkey, just want to be a better golfer and make more money in our nassau's, but at this stage, I'm wondering if gym time will yield better results than lessons and range time. Thanks, JB. and "yes". EVERYBODY says i have a grandpa game. Short, straight and consistent.