Problems in golf?-- Hell No Just Solutions.
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How to Tee-Off without getting Teed-Off
Do you ever have the problem, no matter how hard you try, no matter what you
do you just can't hit that ball up in the air? Do you end up toppin it? Or barely get it
above ground? Well you know golf is a funny game because it's largely a game of
opposites. And one of the opposites that you must grasp is that if you want the ball
to go up you have to hit down. Now for most beginners that's a hard concept to grasp
but even for some experienced golfers it's a difficult one to actually do.
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Putting-Why You Miss
Some common reasons you miss your target when putting are:
1. You started the ball on the wrong line with the wrong speed.
2. You started the ball on the right line with the wrong speed.
3. You started the ball on the wrong line with the right speed.
4. You started the ball on the right line with the right speed but the ball interacted with something on the greens surface causing it to miss.
There will be times when you hit a putt perfectly how you wanted and you will know this, but the ball won't go in. Then other times you'll hit a putt not as you intended but the ball will go in.
That's just golf!
The point though is that a lot of golfers don't know when they've stroked a putt how they wanted as opposed to one they haven't. Instead, most golfers hit putts and don't learn anything and hit the next one, don't learn anything and so on. This means most golfers never learn anything from their putts and therefore don't improve.
Sad but true.
So you must ask specific questions (there's one in particular that I always use and teach my students) after every putt to learn from what just happened. And from asking intelligent question/s after each putt you'll be building up a database of experiences to help you putt better in the future.
So the best way to start improving your green reading is simply by practicing and playing, and then learning as much as you can after each putt. And again, you do this by asking the best questions you can after each putt.
Then once you've mastered doing that then you can look at more advanced green reading techniques. But until you've mastered the fundamentals of green reading there's no point in doing that.