This is the sixth in a series of blogs to help you simplify your knowledge of golf and hopefully modernize your game. [These tips are distilled from an vendible published by Luke Kerr-Dineen for a GOLF franchise tabbed “Play Smart”.]
21/ Plan for Your Shot Pattern: In golf, we deal with luck in terms of shot patterns (according to Scott Fawcett, Founder of DECADE GOLF). Think of your shot pattern like the spray of a shotgun blast: Some pellets may end closer to where you were aiming, but others may veer off slightly, and you never know which one ends where you want. This fact is what makes golf so darn hard. That’s why you should plan virtually your typical dispersion pattern for each type of club and distance. Instead of trying to hit your tideway shot inside of eight feet, segregate a target that results in a unscratched location for an occasional birdie putt. You would be stunned at to know how many PGA Tour players aim yonder from a hole, as you should to stack the deck in your favor.
22/ Count Lanugo Your Swing: Dr. Matthias Grabenhorst, who has spent his life researching the subject of human reaction, published a study last year that showed humans tend to react weightier to events a few seconds into the future. Instantaneous reactions are often clumsy, but a little throne start can go a long way. Dr. Bob Christina of UNC Greensboro, wanted to see if that held true for golf. They took a group of 32 golfers and found that those who counted wrong-side-up from four (as in “four, three, two, one”) surpassing hitting shots performed the weightier in terms of accuracy. Those who decided on their own when to hit their shot often stood over the wittiness for a lot longer and fared much worse.
23/ Understand “Spin Loft”: As specified by TrackMan, it’s the measured wile between the loft delivered by the club at impact and the wile of wade into the ball—the larger the number, the increasingly the wittiness will spin. When hitting driver, it’s optimal to generate the lowest spin loft number as possible considering that’s what fuels distance. So you should be driving into the wittiness with a positive wile of attack. For shorter shots, a higher spin-loft value is key for shot-stopping power into the greens.
24/ Practice the Money Putts: Sinking an 8-foot putt is a “money putt”. Sink increasingly of them and play like the pro golfers who sink 53% of them. Golfers shooting in the 80’s sink 33% of 8-footers and golfers shooting in the 90’s sink 27%.
Tip# 22 suggests that you count lanugo from 4 to start your swing. I believe that it helps you focus on the warm-up in order to ignore any other thoughts. To help me stave other thoughts I count my cadence. When putting I count “1,2 “ where 2 starts my downswing. For every other club I count “1 and 2”, where thinking “1 and” forces me to take my time to well-constructed my backswing AND wrist lag. At the count of “2”, I start of my downswing. Practice with GOLFSTR Training Aid for 6 swing fixes. Buy one today at www.GOLFSTR.com
