Cernunnos
(old hand)
03/09/2008 00:50
Re: accuracy in golf.

I certainly wouldn't class myself as a low handicap player, but I might class myself as pottentially a better player than the scores I get...

Now my answer is whatever suits my eye. One green it might be hit the straight(ish) shot. or on others on days when I'm hitting a gentle draw shot that's what I'll account for in where I'm lining up. Though in reality it'll be side of the green where the lest amount of trouble is & get the ball heading back into the centre..... However...,

However, as much as my coach likes me to get away from doing it I tend to score best when I've a gentle pulled fade into the green, as this shape really suite my eye far better & I tend to be clossest to the pin on these.

We've been going slightly back to basics recently & re-emphasising alighnment & posture etc at address etc, as to get a firm foundation for the swing & re-visiting this as a topic has recently helped enormasly & suddenly everything else seems to start to fall into place.Meaning I can revisit a different alignment fault when I want as one possible means of creating more draw or fade on a shot, on top of the other ways to move the ball. As once I understood what I was doing wrong to be having too many draws not suiting the eye & ending up going left & then overcompensating by the time my most recent lesson came up, it was back to those basics & its as if the penny just dropped.

But no matter how nice it is to see that softly landing fade, or the long draw into a hole, nothing can beat the feeling of seeing the ball tunneling straight down the pipe so to speak, towards the pin or centre of a green.


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