The 260-yard 7-iron sounds like the real story here.
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Pshh. People have been hitting 7 irons farther than that since the mid-90s.
460 yard drive. looked uphill. that’s absurd
Video said it was his first time ever playing.
Swing looked quite good. I’m sure he could become excellent over time if he chooses to keep playing.
Haha there’s no way that was his first time playing. Check out the form on that drive,
It’s what the narrator of the video said.
If that’s his first time playing on a course he must have a couple hundred hours on the range and tons of coaching. That’s a very nice swing.
Hate how people good at something are allowed to be good at all sorts of things.
I seriously doubt it, given the extent to which he famously lives and breathes baseball.
He’s just an insanely elite athlete and hitter, and is able to transfer that athleticism to a good-looking swing with tons of potential.
If he did put in those couple hundred hours, I’m sure he’d quickly become a single-handicap player.
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fundamentally the baseball swing is a lot different than the golf swing but I’ve seen talented baseball hitters with surprisingly decent “no experience” swings.
my trainer thru helping me has a whole module now on helping former baseball players. i had a gnarly over the top tendency and a habit of leaving my weight on my backfoot that he said is pretty common in ball players making the transition. there were a few other things, like I used to block my wrists really hard and he couldnt figure it out til I explained in a baseball swing you dont really use your wrists to the degree you do in golf. had to show him a ton of slowmo videos to get him to believe me, he thought the bball swing was just a golf swing on a horizontal plane. lol nope.
in hs i golfed with my teammates but was quickly told to stop because my coaches felt it was messing our swings up.
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this hot ca weather has me all angsty to golf. conservatively with this surgery, I dont know if i really will be able to swing the club again til spring 2023. when I can stand on two legs though, I’m gonna do nothing but putting. i hate it and practicing hurts my back but fuck it, every single 5-10 handicap i see on youtube has a way better putting stroke than mine. it’s the only way i can think to take strokes off my game anymore, i somehow went from an okay putter to absolutely abysmal when I started focusing on driving and irons in my practice.
At the outset of my second year seriously working on my game, I hurt my back and it resulted in me not being able to make a full swing for almost a year. At first all I could do is putt, and then later chip and pitch.
When I was finally able to swing and play again, my ball striking was still mediocre but I was scoring probably a good 6-8 shots better per round. I was able to break 80 with some consistency despite hacking it around the course.
Sucks to not be able to hit balls but it’s a great opportunity to improve your ability to score.
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yea that makes sense, I’m having rounds in the 80’s with tons of 3 putt bogeys and shit, super frustrating. I am luckily extremely good with my wedges, I don’t know why, but the only thing that saves me usually is I can knock it fairly close, but if 5-7 feet became much more makable then I wouldn’t feel so much pressure on my wedge game.
lot of it is I’m a really bad green reader. if i have the line i can knock it in a lot. but playing alone outside of practice you’re the only one that’s gonna give you a line and mine are usually off by a bit.
not entirely worried about coming back and my swing being off, for whatever reason when I take breaks now I come back and swing better than before. i figured something out, i dont know what precisely, I just feel really really confident standing over that ball so I dont fuck with it or try to overthink what I’m doing.
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While I remained pretty mediocre at most aspects of the game I became a great putter. And it’s because I practiced religiously from 10 feet and in. Like every day for at least an hour for years.
Being able to make those short putts makes all the difference.
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yea like if I could make 5 footers with a high degree of confidence it’d revolutionize my game. right now I’m having to chip to about 2-3 feet. on the rare wedge shank that’s where you start to see the quads rack up out of nowhere. having to stick your shots that close every time goes horribly when you don’t
I know the “tiger training” method is green to tee, but I went tee to green. I don’t know if that was a mistake but when I had so many problems with shanking, it seemed like practicing putting was pointless when on even a short par 4 I’d be on my 5th stroke before I was even on the green. If I get up and down from there who gives a shit really at that handicap (at least in my mind).
I recommend doing the “circle drill” and practicing from the 4 main clock positions and in between. Work from like 2-3 feet outward. Over time you’ll start to recognize the fall line (the angle from which there is zero break) and how the different positions break toward it.
It’s almost like building a new vocabulary.
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i know a lot of golfers like me that are even better ball strikers but can’t putt to save their life, they are usually a “5 handicap” but only because they give themselves everything inside 7 feet and never count 3 putts, lol. irritates me. I could do that and post some rounds in the 70’s by now.
Doing that drill I mentioned above turned me into a high to mid-single while being a mediocre ball striker. Then one year I caught lightning in a bottle, found my swing, and for one glorious year was playing to a three.
Then my swing turned back into a pumpkin.
I hate golf.
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lol I hope my arrogance doesn’t catch up to me but it’s been a solid year of good ball striking and I don’t see any reason why it would stop…
every now and then I get inexplicable shanks and then I just shorten my swing as much as I can until i stop shanking then slowly build it back. works every time