Golf Thread

JustBen said:
So i've got a fitting booked in a week and my play has completely gone to ****. Hit the driving range to try and fix and that didn't help.
Managed to get an hour lesson this morning, love lessons but it does make me wonder how i was hitting irons well previously and not so now... Things i'm not doing well;
  • Stand too far away from the ball
  • Stance too wide
  • Don't turn my body so backs to target
  • Club goes behind me on back swing
  • Flicking wrists at impact
  • Not hinging wrists on back swing
  • Right arm comes to far away from body on back swing
  • Body not rotating at impact
  • Throttling the club with my grip
  • Inside out swing
So yeh not much haha
So in the hour we mostly worked with a wedge just making sure the stationary setup was good then working on short chips (30-50 yards) concentrating on back swing to 1/4 swing and then small swing ensuring my body turned and not just arms.
Moved onto 9 iron and fuller swings.
Really helpful session so shall go back in a month or so for a follow up.
Then went onto the range with my lad and hit some duff shots but some great chips and a handful of awesome 7 iron shots. My normal 7 iron carry is around 125>130 yards but managed to hit a few around 145carry .
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That's a lot of swing thoughts right there!!! One of the things I really like about my current coach is he just gives me one thing to work on and nothing else, if I had that list my brain would melt :p
 
SKILL said:
That's a lot of swing thoughts right there!!! One of the things I really like about my current coach is he just gives me one thing to work on and nothing else, if I had that list my brain would melt :p
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Pretty much same thing for me, and if I do go to the range, it's to work on one thing only. At the end of the day when you go on the course you should be leaving all that behind you and just swing your swing. It's even more important when you get fitted. Defo don't go into that fitting bay trying to swing different to what your natural is or the last one thing you worked on, results will be completely skewed and a waste of time!

Golf is hard enough without a million thought rushing through your head at address to make it hard, give yourself a break haha
 
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JamesH85 said:
Pretty much same thing for me, and if I do go to the range, it's to work on one thing only. At the end of the day when you go on the course you should be leaving all that behind you and just swing your swing. It's even more important when you get fitted. Defo don't go into that fitting bay trying to swing different to what your natural is or the last one thing you worked on, results will be completely skewed and a waste of time!

Golf is hard enough without a million thought rushing through your head at address to make it hard, give yourself a break haha
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Yeh aim is to work on bits of it at a time and go back in 6 weeks or so and see if they're happy i've taken one or two of those elements and crossed them off the list. I went out this morning t'ing off at 6:25ish for 9 holes, got a few holes in before the water proofs came out.
Using what i learnt and concentrating on take away and loosening the grip loads, tends to be drop a few balls and i'll hit one of them really well, the others a bit crap but thats ok.

Good advise on fitting, will just swing without thinking about it. Unsure what i'll do with the fitting info, likely see what part of the bag i can make the most gains with and then consider shopping around for the best deal on them. Alternatively maybe if i get fit for something like the ping g440 irons maybe save some cash and get the g425s with similar make up and put some money towards a putter, wedges etc. trying to limit overall spend to 1k
 
JustBen said:
Yeh aim is to work on bits of it at a time and go back in 6 weeks or so and see if they're happy i've taken one or two of those elements and crossed them off the list. I went out this morning t'ing off at 6:25ish for 9 holes, got a few holes in before the water proofs came out.
Using what i learnt and concentrating on take away and loosening the grip loads, tends to be drop a few balls and i'll hit one of them really well, the others a bit crap but thats ok.

Good advise on fitting, will just swing without thinking about it. Unsure what i'll do with the fitting info, likely see what part of the bag i can make the most gains with and then consider shopping around for the best deal on them. Alternatively maybe if i get fit for something like the ping g440 irons maybe save some cash and get the g425s with similar make up and put some money towards a putter, wedges etc. trying to limit overall spend to 1k
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Just remember don't feel forced to get the latest everything, as long as you have your specs. As an example last year's Ping G430 max 10k driver was a game changer. It's not gone bad over night, just because the G440 is out now. You could probably pick one up now for £380, even less second hand. Always worth to keep your options open.

Friend of mine has just splashed £780 on a GT3 driver with aftermarket shaft. Crazy if you ask me, waste of money.
 
Out today for a round in Bristol, started off under sunshine and blue skies but that didn't last... Can't this rain properly sod off yet? :p It wasn't too bad really but meh.

For the most part I played well, actually started off really really good with 3 over through 8, a chunk of that coming through putts, 12 putts in 8 holes!

Then I doubled the 9th, first double of the round, but still +5 on the front 9 with 14 putts. Happy days.

Back 9 wasn't as good though, started with 3x 3-putts for a start...

Still, overall an 85 which is playing to my handicap basically, 8 pars, 5 bogeys and 5 doubles, nothing worse than a double. Could be worse.

Got my first NCG event at Pennard on Wednesday, half-tempted to work out what my handicap would've been if not for their idiotic policy :p
 
Not having a good time with my back recently but played a mixed alternate shot competition with my wife yesterday as a last get-together for our mixed section before we all go out separate ways

Somehow I managed to drive the ball fairly well, but still chunked a few irons and wedges, and the greens were a bit rough and slow after the weather a couple days ago

My wife drove the ball well and played very well considering how little she has played since about October

Despite all this, we were only 2 points off the winning score which was a bit of a surprise

Hoping pain killers and stretching will help ease my back before Pannal on Thursday
 
I've a Ventus Blue I bought on Ebay. I absolutely love it, I bought a second hand G410 the other day and it came with a Mitsubishi soemthing or other which I didn't like..

I now think the Ventus might be fake. It's a little more flicky or regular than the Mitsi shaft and I have seen loads of fake Ventus on Temu.

I'm at the opinion that a shaft is only as good as the way it makes you play, £10 or £500. If it suits you it suits you but you should try all of them not buy before you try.
 
ChroniC said:
I've a Ventus Blue I bought on Ebay. I absolutely love it, I bought a second hand G410 the other day and it came with a Mitsubishi soemthing or other which I didn't like..

I now think the Ventus might be fake. It's a little more flicky or regular than the Mitsi shaft and I have seen loads of fake Ventus on Temu.

I'm at the opinion that a shaft is only as good as the way it makes you play, £10 or £500. If it suits you it suits you but you should try all of them not buy before you try.
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I presume it's not the more expensive "velocore" ventus shaft? Standard blue ventus is a stock shaft for a few manufactures. The Velocore is the upgraded shaft a lot of pros use.

I had a blue velocore TR shaft a couple of years ago.... Was amazing on the 2 days a year I was swinging really well.... but really hard work if your timing is off... Longest driver ever but most of the time, just really hard work....

Hence why I'm getting older, 50 soon, but can still hit a decent ball.... shaft is now a 55g stiff !!!! Not so much hard work
 
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