How is it that in golf, anytime you ever think to yourself "Right, I've got that sorted, time to practice something else" - whatever it was that you had, be it driving, chipping or putting, IMMEDIATELY goes away on a long holiday to Outer Mongolia??
I thought I'd found a putting method for life - when I changed to it I didn't 3 putt for six rounds on the spin, (it involved pacing out all your putts then taking the putter back a certain distance past your back foot) but it started to fade away, and finally in the club monthly medal last week I three-putted SEVEN greens and took 40 putts.
About a month ago I had a drive I was convinced I would never lose, it was just a shoulder turn back and a shoulder turn through, nothing else, and it made wonderfully solid contact and hit long straight shots. I stopped taking the driver to the range and concentrated on wedges only for a month - as soon as I got my wedges zeroed in, the drive went awol, turning into a weak push.
I'm just about to go to play this week's competition with the feeling that I have a 30% chance of hitting a good drive by my own standards, and will just try to stay in play, I'd give my fairway woods 80%, my short irons 75%, chipping 80% and putting 70% (meaning 100% would be the best I could play these shots)
I thought I'd found a putting method for life - when I changed to it I didn't 3 putt for six rounds on the spin, (it involved pacing out all your putts then taking the putter back a certain distance past your back foot) but it started to fade away, and finally in the club monthly medal last week I three-putted SEVEN greens and took 40 putts.
About a month ago I had a drive I was convinced I would never lose, it was just a shoulder turn back and a shoulder turn through, nothing else, and it made wonderfully solid contact and hit long straight shots. I stopped taking the driver to the range and concentrated on wedges only for a month - as soon as I got my wedges zeroed in, the drive went awol, turning into a weak push.
I'm just about to go to play this week's competition with the feeling that I have a 30% chance of hitting a good drive by my own standards, and will just try to stay in play, I'd give my fairway woods 80%, my short irons 75%, chipping 80% and putting 70% (meaning 100% would be the best I could play these shots)
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