japp imo you need to be member in a club to play 50+ rounds and to get used to the shortgame and mental game stuff. --> Feel good on your homecourse etc etc.
Look away on bad swings by 50 year plus guys! Looking at them and thinking about it makes the brain trying to copy it. Try to just watch their balls (to help finding them), but look away at their swings.
avrg. 4,4 strokes on the PAR 3s really tells me its the shortgame !

gl for next season.

i made a handicapbet during last season. Winner gets for free drinks all night long. I think thats a good motivator and doesnt cost that much money

pay up front and then play for free
so much fail
lol
gl next year

told you that my english sucks

btw 2 worst things in those tournaments:
- "good shot"
- "you doing it wrong. you have to keep your head down"

haha jus watched the birdie vid, u have a pretty sweet swing for someone who cant break 90 imo

3 more months of winter here but I finally grabbed i9 and started to practice full swing.
My workout station is quite simple, I’m open to any suggestions. Currently it’s a thick exercise mat and 2layers of thin carpet.
I also made sponge balls on my own. But the problem is that they are not perfectly round and are very soft. So I cannot trust ball flight.
That’s why I need your feedback and comments about my swing so I know what to work on and don’t learn some bad habits.

Here are swings I took today. Because I’m very inconsistent, I recorded 4 consecutive swings.
Feel free to comment, criticize etc.

There is no much space so it’s hard to record and you can’t see club head at the top of my backswing. I will try to make a better vids next time. Also the light isn’t perfect, but I hope that quality is good enough.
If you’d like a slow motion let me know, I’m gonna try to do it.

FV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTomjzbIDfU

DTL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrSAFj8guY

(hate my leg motion)

You will always hate your leg motion with a stance that narrow.
Study the great players of golf. Notice the width of their stances.

Also notice that their head position, in regards to how they look at the ball.
You won't see them having to look down their noses as much as you.
Position your head so that you are almost looking straight ahead at the ball.

Lots of good stuff in your swing.
With your work ethic, I expect you'll be exceeding your goals in time.
Best of luck.

thx for your feedback Trout

definitely different feeling with wider stance, need to practice keeping my right knee bend

any suggestion about other things to work on first ? I know there are a lot of them, but which one is the most crucial ?
In slow-mo I see how my backswing/takeaway is not perfectly on the plain- maybe this?

LFC, comparing my own swing to yours, I believe you will be shooting low 90s/80s as soon as you get a few rounds under your belt in the new season and get your short game back. I will leave the suggestions to better players but just want to let you know you are certainly improving!

bump to save the thread

maybe also someone would like to comment my last swing vid

it's -20 celsius degree here, spring and golfing is far far away

wow,niceswings!

i agree on a little wider stance and i'd say stand further from the ball. let your arms hang naturally a bit more. maybe attack the ball a bit moremtoo

nice that you,don't have all kinds of hacker weaknesses like alot of us. you have a very nice swimg

short update:

just come back from 3 weeks of snowboarding. Brought an left elbow injury with me.... FML
I should really consider stop doing other sports.

But how could you not like this:
pics:


Anyway winter is almost gone in Poland. 10 degree outside. Expecting DR opening in a few weeks.
Made already one prop bet- That I'm gonna score 85 this season in a tournament. (yes, I was drunk that time) luckily it's for small stakes.

but looking to take some bigger long term bets for this season, just to keep my motivation going (not that I don't have it).

I've just sent my membership declaration. ~1.5k$ initial fee and ~550$ yearly fee
Hope my elbow will be ready soon, can't wait to hit some balls

First visit to driving range this season. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Lovely weather. Golf course is also open but with winter holes. Fairways don’t look great so won’t be playing any rounds for few weeks.
Practice green is also in a bad shape. So going to spend next week on driving range.

Today was a first time I hit a ball since early November. Felt very rusty, many shanks and slices.
But also hit some really good shots imho, so there is a hope

New season so new goals needed.
- My current goal of breaking 90 is still on. But I hope to break it soon. Goal for the end of the season is breaking 85 (already made a small bet about it )
- HCP =<16
- Currently I’m a member in two golf clubs- one is only a driving range, but with a membership (~$450) I have unlimited DR balls. There is a club championship in August, my goal is to be in top5 in this tourney
- 2nd golf club is a “normal” one with much more better players. Club championship is 23-24.06 – goal is top20 (20th last year was 176).
- Probably I will also play in Summer Cup- 8 tourneys July-August, best 4 scores (STB) counts. Goal is top15 (about 140 STB (4 scores))

I already see my goals are again rather unreachable but it’s all about chasing the dreams, not catching them.

I also made some “all season long” goals. Most of them got come from Rotella’s book, so they are about mindset. Another is for example “aiming at the center of the green” (thank you ship—this) or spending X time on Ultimate Practice Routine (thx dagolfdoc) etc.

As I mentioned before I’m looking forward June. Me and my friend gonna travel across Poland to watch Euro2012 matches and playing golf in each city.

Big expectations for this year, I’m motivated as hell. Don’t know how I’m going to find free time to do my master (also June, but have to do research and write a thesis)

Keep fingers crossed!

Hi LFC,

Whilst I don't pretend to be an expert on golf (HC is 14) I only started breaking 90 consistantly in the last twelve months & HC has dropped from 21 to 14 over past 12 months. Reading your posts is like looking back in time at myself in a way.

I was obbsessed with breaking 90 for the best part of 18 months and it drove my wife nuts as I would spend all my spare time either at the course or reading about how to break 90 through the net and books etc. I would take the occasional lesson, but it was always on the long game.

Once I had short game lessons it took all of 2 weeks to break 90 for I learnt to get up & down.

In summary the biggest keys I felt were

1) was being able to get "up & down" inside of 3 shots from inside 100 metres. This has greaty reduced the number of doubles & triples that I take.

If I have a bogey on a hole then I consider mission is accomplished. You don't need alot of pars to break 90 & these pars will even out the doubles to break 90, but triple bogies will kill you.

2) SHORT GAME lessons with my pro - ie learning how to chip & pitch

3) Not trying every swing tip that I read - just sticking to one practise drill over and over again (feet together drill as advised by my pro). My head was spinning at times as I used to overloaded on swing advice and I tied myself up in knots when trying to hit the ball as I had 52 swing thoughts running through my head when standing over the ball instead of just one.... to quote Bob Rotella - my target is....

4) Though shall not hit over or through trees - one lost shot is better than 4 lost shots

I still spray the odd drive & iron and putt very ordinary, but being able to chip it & pitch it close means that I don't have too many long putts (ie max 2 putts) unless I hit a GIR which doesn't happen very often anyway, this alone reduces the number of putts taken.

The website "Golf Made Smple" has excellent newsletters re score improvement as as opposed to swing improvement and is aimed at the higher handicap player such as ourselves and I found it was great reading which may be of benefit to you.

Best of luck with your mission - like others have said with your determination you will get there in no time.

Cheers Steve

Thx Steve
interesting read.

It's all about short game. Last year my up&down was only at 8.6% and 0% sand saves. That says it all..

They finally cut the greens today at my golf course after the winter so it's high time to spend hours around practice green.
Also can't wait for a first full round this year

best of luck to both of us

Hi LFC,

Yep, short game and keeping the ball in play.

Mind you... you don't need an excellent short game to break 90... a decent one will still get the job done. I used to often take 4+ shots to get down in under 50m, now I take 3 and the occassional two.

I played with 2 handicapper on the weekend and there wasn't a huge difference between a long games and he missed alot more faiwarys than me and also missed alot of greens, but his short game was amazing - anything under 100m and he was up & down in 2. This and his putting was the main differnce in our scores (78 v 92).

Cheers

Steve