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I DID try too hard at golf, absolutely. You can definitely try too hard I think. I cant really be bothered taking more lessons because I cant be bothered to work on the things they tell you. And truthfully i cant be bothered paying more money to improve slightly at a game i dont enjoy that much anyway. My issue is losing interest during rounds because of bad shots. When a few bad shots show up, id rather just walk off and play computer games.

No, im undoubtedly worse. I stopped playing golf for a few years because of yips. But this year, i got the urge to play golf again and for the largest part, i seem to have cured my yips. I havent scored one iota better now ive got my yips under control than I did when i had actual yips, and to be honest im quickly becoming bored of the game again. Ive had some lessons, doing range work, none of it is making any difference whatsoever and i dont particularly like the course im a member at that much. At first i convinced myself i just needed time and it was rust and the scores would come, but to be honest im playing awful.

Hi Everyone Im really struggling with the chipping and pitching action. Im quite yippy but been working hard on that and full swing starting to feel good. I dont feel i have good control of my chipping and pitching action though. The swing thought im going with is to start with some slight shaft lean and slight weight set forward, and to return my hands at impact to present the shaft lean at impact. However, the strikes are inconsistent, and because they are, i cant control flight and spin in a meaningful way. Particularly when using loft. I feel relatively comfortable with a pitch and run type action with a pitching wedge or 9 iron, but i dont feel i have control of the bounce angle on lofted wedges at all. My bad strike tends to be more of a slightly heavy contact which pops the ball up a little higher with less spin. Usually you kind of "get away" with this kind of contact as it will release out a little bit, but its struck poorly. Anyone got any really simple thoughts I can work on over the coming weeks? Thank You

ive hit balls just not played a round. ive had yips but im seeing progress now except my chipping and pitching where im shanking some of my shots

Thats kind of my point. Dont you run the risk of ruining your mechanics because you arent hitting a ball. I could swing the sticks massively fast, but it wouldnt create a good golf shot

Hi Everyone Im about to play my first round of golf for 2 years in a weeks time, and ive been working with the superspeed golf swing sticks to loosen me up. Problem is, how useful are these sticks? its easy to swing anything fast when technique is irrelevant and theres no ball. How effectively does this translate to a real golf swing?

Hello Everyone Over the past 5-6 years ive had massive problems with full swing yips. I gave up playing mostly for the last 2-2.5 years, but im feeling an urge to get back playing. I used to be quite good, i got to a 2 handicap then started to play dreadfully with full swing yips. Ive read some good psychology articles and books, but one thing ive been noticing whilst watching a bit of golf recently is the swings of certain players like Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Brandt Snedeker are three in particular ive really noticed. If we take this example firstly, i know its a driver off the deck, but Phils swing starts with quite a pronounced "lift" upwards of the club and then he swings back freely. This is DJ in a taylormade promotional video. His swing again starts with a "lift" and then he swings back. From a technical perspective, i dont know why they do this. But I notice from my own yips that ive really struggled to take the club back, and i cant start a swing at all. Ironically, i can chip and putt balls no problem though. What i tend to experience is i want to push more and more weight into the ground, almost to the point the shaft bends, and i simply cant move the club back. It means i have no rhythm, no speed, and it throws the whole swing off. When i could play golf quite well i would swing a 6 iron at around 90mph. It would be 80 with the yips...if im lucky. When i saw these swings that started with the club being lifted up and then swung, i kind of instinctively felt this might work as a swing thought to "start" the swing, the lift becomes the start of the swing. What do you think about this? I can imagine it puts a reliance on hand eye coordination but i dont really care if the shots are bad, just so long as i can swing fast and not yip! Thanks Everyone

Hi mate thanks for getting in touch. I wouldnt say something else is affecting my golf, but i would say i cant see the point anymore in speding a hard day at work, coming home to put effort into something that i used to do naturally and cant. I just see it as a waste of time, effort and money. I have gone 2 months without playing now and I couldnt care less from a disappointment point of view. However theres this feeling i SHOULD be doing something productive with my out of work life, rather than spending it playing computer games and watching sports on tv. If golf is on, i just turn it off because I cant be bothered with it either. The thing is, I WANT to be the golfer i was when i didnt yip, because then it would be fun. But it wont go away. Ive had expensive psychology lessons, its cost me hundreds of pounds. Its SO HARD for me to contain the disappointment of working hard all week, to think im going to go out to enjoy something at the weekend, which after 20 mins turns into walking around aimlessly, hitting it like an absolute idiot and wishing i was at home. Im trying not to be melodramatic, but its how i feel

I have had lessons in the past. In addition to this ive read countless ideas on the swing by so many people and watched gold constantly. When i was good at golf, i had a swing where i attacked the ball very much from the inside and played with a strong draw. My grip was odd...the left hand pretty neutral but the right hand strong. The swing was very short and had a very fast tempo, not dissimilar to someone like Nicholas Thompson off the PGA tour. I got down to a 2 handicap at lowest, and usually a low 3 handicapper hovering around 2.5, 2.6 index. I wanted to get better as i never felt i hit the ball that well, so i sought out lessons and i saw the trackman numbers and such. We worked on getting the grip better, actually aligning to the target better (whereas before i would just kind of walk up to the ball, shuffle around a bit till i felt it was ok and hit), i started really focusing on things that i still think are good like alignment, routine etc. And the swing path became less inside out. For a while i played great, then i started getting steeper and steeper and hitting disgusting pull slices all day. THEN, it started getting to the point where, my mind wouldnt let me take the club away. I would do all kinds of crazy stuff like the club would bounce up and down and my takeaway totally frozen even though pros recommended trigger moves etc. Then because the game wasnt enjoyable because of the yipping, id start taking time off because i didnt want to go through with all of this and then, i started losing my flexibility, getting bigger etc. Now I just dont want to go because the only emotions i ever feel are frustration, resentment, annoyance, wanting it to be over after 10 mins and feeling like theres 4 more hours left etc. If you could take me back to a time where i did not yip, i would play the game again and absolutely love it, but its never ever coming back. Ive tried everything. It HURTS. Ive never been any good at ANYTHING else in my life. I put everything into golf from the age of 12 up to about 25. The last 10 years has just been too much for me. i just cant take it

Its a possibility. It might be the only possibility to be honest. Its just too much effort and emotional toil to be worth it now the way im going. I dont get any enjoyment out of the game, its a slide towards playing worse i cant get out of, i cant hit any shots (other than a big slice, and to have reached 2 and 3 handicap in my life i didnt hit a yip slice to get there.) It just feels like something i dont want to do in my time off. I work full time and work hard. The last thing on my mind is going to a golf course, yipping, feeling low, starting the week all over again at work until another weekend of yipping comes or night on the range trying to not yip. Theres no escape. Ive tried visualisation lessons. Ive tried triggers. Tried just going up to the ball and hitting it. Tried not caring. Tried caring like its a PGA tour event. Tried everything. Its the only thing in my life ive ever been any good at but i just cant handle anymore.

I think ive had enough. I just dont want to spend time working on golf anymore or playing. Just want something else to become a passion.

The way to get good smash factor is just an efficient hit, no crazy spin lofts or glancing strikes. just a solid strike produces the 1.48-1.50 smash factors.

Course dependent? I could imagine if you put someone onto a 460 yard par 4 they might think i need to give this everything to try and make a par. I play courses where if you hit it another 10 yards, youll just be 10 yards further into the trees. My home course has hardly any bailout on some tees. Also, is an avatar needed?

Really? not saying your experience is wrong but im surprised. I guess theres a distinction between swinging harder and faster too though. And also, law of diminishing returns.....swing faster, miss middle of face, get lower ball speed than a slower more solid strike

I would say in my experience, people do not swing as fast on the course, as they do in the vacuum environment of a driving range or into a net with a launch monitor. A swing of 105mph is not slow in my opinion. That would be significantly faster than the average LPGA tour player who can flat out play, and i would imagine quite a few champions tour players are in the 105mph region and they can play courses of 6,700-6,800 yards very well. I think its easy (ish) to record a high swing speed when making a free pass at it OR with the objective of trying to record a high swing speed, but on the course you are trying to put the ball into a certain area, not record a high swing speed. Throw in bunkers, deep rough, water and OB into the equation and most peoples swing speed goes down (in my experience)