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I am looking from advice from someone who is a right handed person but swings left handed clubs like I do. The problem is I have started to do the underhand ball throwing drill but because I am right hand dominate and I throw a ball with my right hand it is difficult to get a strong throw of the golf ball in the drill wit the left hand or my trail hand. I am wondering are there better drills for me? Does the fact that I swing a golf club better one handed with my right hand in a left handers swing than I do with both hands mean that I will have a golf game that will always suffer or are there drills that can help with this.

Not trying to hijack this thread but does anyone have a free handicapped calculator on pc or phone app that is accurate and free.

When was the last time 5" really got to your golf day. Yesterday I was playing 18 on a par 72 and on the last par 3 there was no wind and I had 178 yards to the hole. I grabbed my 7 iron and hit a high fade and left it 5 inches from a hole in one. Don't get me wrong I am happy with the birdie but come on!! What are your frustrating 5 inch horror stories, the ones that just stay with you for a few days? (Keep it clean now )

I don't know if this is serious or not, but that's hilarious . I hope to be in front of you and never behind you if this ever happens.

I am sure that's what he meant but you even said that I am a "big man in stature" surely sounds better than implying that I have such a great mass that objects get caught in my gravitational pull. Maybe he meant what he meant but intonation and poor word choice do not translate well in written word. Anyways I think that what I am starting to pull from the help is that my focus should be on flexibility because it seems that bigger people can indeed play but what they all have that I don't is the ability to get into position whereas I move like a rock. I have watched this video but my problem is that my limited flexibility and injury I worry that I could not get so upright with my club in my back swing, but that is why I am looking into a more bent at address swing in hopes that my arms can clear the belly. I the video I noticed that he had an out to in swing and I wonder how his shot shaping abilities are. Or am I stuck with a fade shot forever. *** I would like to stop addressing what Piz may or may not have meant honestly it doesn't really matter and I hope that the great minds on here will continue to offer help so far it has been worthwhile for me. ****

Really though, there is no way that you could not honestly have thought that by say "hey man your large" could be construed as an insult. And then there was no other word that you could have used than orbit. I have been big my whole life and orbit does not equal an appropriate term. You may have meant different but I took it as such. Your whole post could have worked the same by starting off with "because your large ....". If you didn't mean it as an insult than only you can know but I responded to your comment in a way that I was insulted. Anyways I have moved on thank you for trying to clarify.

Well I never said everyone, nor did I imply everyone as can be seen by the use of the word kind of. And if would would have read the whole thread you would have agreed that I agreed with the actions of the OP. But I have been golfing for a year now and in my time I have had 2 near misses where the thunk or impact of the ball was 2 to 4 feet behind me. And once got hit in the head and yes everyone didn't say anything at all but each did have that stupid look on their face I mentioned. And I am sure that someone with 4200 post I am sure has seen much worse comments. I promise as soon as someone almost hits me with a golf ball and acts in a manner such as the original poster I will edit my comments and acknowledge that you were indeed correct. But just for your info I do have a grip it is a strong grip and it works for my swing really well. just a joke.

You know, I kind of agree with this. These are the kind of people that have that fake ass stupid look on their face like they are surprised that the ball went that far because the "never hit that far normally." I have even had one person try to get me to agree with them that even though they almost hit our group it was okay because I had to agree it was a good shot.

Yeah I was fitted for my driver and my irons, at the time it was all I could afford while I was replacing 40 dollar Kijiji clubs. Since then I have added 3 and 5 wood's and gap, sand and lob wedges but they were bought from the shelf because of price. But the most used clubs that I have have been fitted. What I was trying to say was that Martin Hall took an upright white board and drew two lines vertically parallel to each other like --> I I. Then he stood in between the lines. His right hip touched on line and the second line was about 6 inches away. when he replicated his down swing with his back to the white board he emphasised a horizontal shift so his left hip slip over to meet the line leaving a new space from the line on hot right hip that was previously touching. I can see it in my head and I apologise I can not explain it better. In the end he was discussing a shift of the hips in the down swing but I have heard other talk about swinging in a barrel and I don't understand how that works. If I swing in a barrel I could not achieve compression on the ball with forward shaft lean nor could I bottom out my swing arch past the ball. Id there was no shift I would bottom out at impact. I was just hoping for a little clarity on that shift or whether you swing in a barrel without hip movement. The problem with this is that Adam Scott in thin and can flatten out his swing plane while I have a big belly and flat swings cause me to hit the belly but an upright swing can't happen because of shoulder injury and limits raising my arms that high. So I thought about experimenting with more of a forward lean in order to clear my belly with my arms in the down swing.

Just wanted to say sorry I have not responded. I was doing all my communication on my phone and it is hard to respond to so much information that came in on a phone, so I waited until I was on my computer. For the first part I believe you are right and I have been trying to learn to turn my body, I find that with super limited flexibility and back stiffness it is a bit of a struggle. I find that as I practice on a range went I turn my body I can't hit a good shot to save my life so I revert back to what kind of works and ultimately don't learn what I wanted to. It is hard to see proper technique not work right off the bat but that is why golf is a lifelong sport. As for the bringing my belly with me I feel like what you say is key but I am not sure I understand it correctly ... do you have a bit more info on that concept. WOW ... Just wow. It is amazing what people will say hidden behind an avatar. I am sure you meant well but I have ignored worse than you and you are no exception. My injuries are broke ankles and knees as well as multiple sprains and muscle damage in my back. I have had surgery but mixed with laziness and not exercising or stretching has compounded the problem. One problem is that I am not an top athlete anymore and have to stop believing that I could play like Jordan Spieth. I will into the research that has been suggested by everybody and in the meantime I will work on getting that swing video.

So this morning I was watching some videos and went out to the back yard to work on swing and a question popped into my head. How does on really know if they are bent over at address properly? Keep in mind I am 6'7" and I am worried that I am to up right. Is there a feel that is experienced? I can be upright and end up in a strong balanced finish but I can also bend way over and have the same balanced finish. I swear a swing video is coming just haven't had time to hit the range yet I was just looking for thoughts. On a side note. I hear in the down swing there is a slide of the buttons. Martin Hall on the Golf Channel had a great white board drill but then I watch other address down swing and don't offer the same advice or don't address this shift towards the target at all. So I am also wondering is there a shift and at what point does it happen?

No this was a straight shot to the top of my head. I did say some mean things but I felt pretty justified.

I have to agree you did the right thing, if this had happened to me I would have given you a great shot more so if you came with an apology. But last Sunday I was playing a round and a person nailed me with a ball from 100 yards away and offered me a hey did you see my ball. I am assuming proper etiquette is not to punch him in the face but man I really wanted to. Even after I told him he hit hit me his answer was to accuse me of lying. So what should I have done?

For me this week I would have to say was my first eagle. On a par 5. It was a straight fairway and the wind was on my back and slightly downhill. Tee off was a bullet baby draw with the wing gave me an extra 20 yards plus a more than normal drive that also gave me an extra 50 yards. Used my 3 wood a la McIlroy at the Irish open and ran it up into the green leaving me with 3 foot for eagle. Never been more scared in my life to miss a 3 footer.

You know, I am not worried about what other people are thinking, it's more that when I started out I paid my dues and tried real hard to learn the unwritten rules because the person who started me on golf showed me how important they were. It would be crappy of me to say that we could have done what we wanted because we paid money at the expense of others that paid the same. It's like the saying goes "do unto other as you would have them do to you," and I get irked when others break eidquette. It was less of a problem and more of an irritation that there was a refusal to at least try to accept to follow a faster pace of play, because when I am stuck behind slower players that take so long to finish one hole it really does drive me. That is why I developed my swing at the range before I went back to play a second round of golf when I started. I think less problem for what others are thinking and more about respect, I guess is what I am trying to say.

No doubt. But where I am we have one par 3 course and it is about 10 bucks more expensive to play as well as it is so busy tee times are seperated by 5 minuts intervals and they are busy from morning to night. I am worried about holdING people up again with slow play again. At least the executive course there are par 4's and tee times are spaced more apart. But I get what you are saying less yardage for him to hit through. I am scared to alienate my only real golfing buddy 8 times out of ten I play alone or solo in a group of people I don't know.

I can hit fades like nobody's business. I am starting to feel like the fade is my stock shot. I would just like to be able to shape my shot to play and plan a course. But I feel like the draw bias driver stops me from shapING shots properly.

I think that when it comes to newbies and golf there is a need to hear the clunk of the bottom of the hole. I strive to hear that noise when I play but for me the noise is the reward. No noise means I need to work harder next time. I also think that him playing with us is a jealousy thing, where as, we are both addicted to golf so when he comes down all he wants to do is play golf and not hang with his brother. I think that his want to play golf is to spend time with him, but as far as lessons go it won't happen because there is no love for the game. I knew after my first game I was hooked within a week I was at the driving range for about a month with fitted clubs before I played another round. But because of a lack of love on the brothers part I feel whenever he joins us it will never get better.

I do agree with you 100%, but the problem is I did explain everything but his attitude is well I pay so I should be able to play how I want. If nothing changes it won't be him and me it will be him and his brother. I am not a member of this club but I go there enough that member are starting to know me and I don't want to ruin that.

Just for my own ignnorence what is a scramble format. I am scared to play again but I think that him joining us may be a repeat event, and because it is his brother I don't want to be mean so I am willing to try new formats to make it interesting for the brother.

I think that advice, whether taking or giving, is all in perspective. I have only been playing golf for a year and am no PGA TOUR player at all so when I see someone driving it 290 yards consistently and they offer a small tidbit of information I will generally try it out. Because they are obviously doing something I am not. For me what happened once I was working on my swing and someone came up to me once and offered some advice while he was swinging beside me I was on my own mission and ignored the information. In the end he moved on to someone else and only later did I find out the he was the PGA professional and was giving out free advice and I missed out on it because of the stigma of taking advice from people. I would never presume to offer advice as a year old golfer but advice giving may not always be a bad thing. Most of time people are genuine with help.

This weekend I played 3 rounds of golf, 2 times on a par 72 Championship course and once on an Executive course. This smaller Executive course has par 4's and a par 5 so it is a good place to play cheaply for a good golf day out. Normally I play this course with my buddy when he is down. This weekend his brother asked if he could join us, to which I had no issues with. The problem is that his brother is not athletic at all and does not have any sort of sport skill at all. This caused him to have short drives and no accuracy, although, his chipping was bang on 80 percent ftom 20 yards out, with the odd shot flying 60 yards. I knew that it was going to be a long game and that's why the smaller course was great. But because he also could not hit far I suggested that while my friend and I play a normal round his brother should play best ball choosing who he wants to drop his ball from. We had agreed but once the brother saw that we were playing a real game with our scores he wanted to do the same and gave up on the best ball idea. To be honest it was kind of annoying because it clearly held people up, so much so that I had to wave 4 groups past us. I remember playing for the first time and I played in a way that because I was a bit more athlectic I could hit the ball long distances just not accurate. So when I first played I would play my shot and if I lost my ball I would play it where I think I lost it or from my partners ball and thus I was able to keep pace and not get in anyone's way. So what is proper etiquette for playing with someone who has no athletic ability and hits a golf ball ten yards at a time. Was my suggestion of best ball so bad? In the end he gets to play the same number of shots that we do, is it wrong that it bugs me that people who take 15 to 20 shots on a hole want to record thier game? In the end if there was no one waiting I wouldn't care. I have dropped 10 tee shots on a hole before when the course was empty but what happened over the weekend was just a bit much, even though we did have a ton of fun.

No this is exactly what I wanted to know. I played 2 rounds with a friend yesterday and everytime I hit it into the tall grass he argued me that I had to take the next shot from where the ball crossed the out of tall grass line. This does bring up a new question, if there is no OB markers does tall grass mean instant OB or does there have to be some kind of marker that identifies aNY thing OB. I just wonder because if the tall grass is over 100 yards long and leads to a fence and a farmer field can I still play out of it as long as it is not marked?

So to put this question into context, I have hit my tee shot into the middle of the fairway on a par 5. As I happily walk up to my ball to take my second shot and slice that second shot into long grass and lose it (and there are no OB markers). Here is my question... Knowing that my ball is lost because it is 30 feet into long grass, when I take my drop, can I drop from my original shot position or do I have to take the shot from my best guess of where the ball passed the tall grass. I see a lot of answers that say you have to re-tee on the first shot, but on the second shot if it is better to hit out of the fairway can I just redrop from the fairway rather than hitting it out of the rough where the ball went in? Even if where the ball crossed the line is closer to the hole. The reason why is I feel better hitting from the fairway even if it is the longer shot.