Practice in a net until you're hitting crisp shots. When you go to the course just play golf. You'll make mistakes but try to understand what you did wrong. Little it'll come around. I use 90% weight and just swing. I have gone from 20 to 13 handicap in 4 months. Hang in there. Practice short game.
This is a very common issue. I stopped going to the range. I've decided that by the time i drive to the range and knock off a bucket i could play 9 holes. Right around the corner from my house i can walk nine for $20. So now i do that instead of going to the range. I do swing into the net regularly though. I just buy cheap balls and if i knock one into the next zip code i just hit another. It's all practice anyway... I'm just trying to become more at home on the course by doing this.
@danny Sounds good. I'm going to try that. Going to the driving range is not like going to the golf course. Rapid fire at the range. One ball after another. Hit a bad shot say damn it and tee up another. On the golf course it dont work that way. Score card tells the truth. Cant tee up another and say damn it. Because the score card makes us write down the number of shots it took to get to hole. I have a net in my garage. I'm just going to stick to learning the swing and practicing the swing on the golf course when I go by my self. Tom has improved my ball striking for the better. I've been playing golf for 30 years Tom's instruction is the best I've ever seen. Stack and Tilt is the best. My goal is to practice on the course. Thank for the tip. I think you hit the nail on the head. Take Care Richard
@Lock Rekey Just to piggyback on this, there has been quite a bit of dialogue in the Forum on the topic of how to transport "Ranger Rick" to the golf course. We all experience that! All I can tell you is that it is part of the process, and if your practice mode is delivering consistently solid results then it's just a function of time in terms of when/how that will translate itself to the course. As confidence in your swing grows you should find more and more that you are playing "golf" instead of "golf swing" on the course, at which point your mechanical thoughts will be reduced to one or two at the most, and you will be nearly entirely focused on your target and not your swing. An excellent book that may help you with this - and which others here have benefited from - is "Fearless Golf: Conquering the Mental Game" by Dr. Gio Valiante.
Practice in a net until you're hitting crisp shots. When you go to the course just play golf. You'll make mistakes but try to understand what you did wrong. Little it'll come around. I use 90% weight and just swing. I have gone from 20 to 13 handicap in 4 months. Hang in there. Practice short game.
This is a very common issue. I stopped going to the range. I've decided that by the time i drive to the range and knock off a bucket i could play 9 holes. Right around the corner from my house i can walk nine for $20. So now i do that instead of going to the range. I do swing into the net regularly though. I just buy cheap balls and if i knock one into the next zip code i just hit another. It's all practice anyway... I'm just trying to become more at home on the course by doing this.