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Originally Posted by nkranga For the last few rounds(6 to be precise) after I first broke 80, I was praying my first 79 would not be a fluke....prayer answered. Shot 79 this weekend!!!.
I cheated a little bit. I had been slicing bananas with my driver, so let it rest this weekend and did not use anything longer than a 4 iron of the tee. Inspite of playing from the tips(thanks to the long hitter/partner) salvaged my best ever !!! |
That's great! I certainly don't think it's cheating to keep the driver in the bag. Isn't the basis of good golf judgment not attempting shots that you know you probably can't make? If you know that your driver is very likely going to leave you in a bad spot, it makes sense to leave it alone until you can pick it up with confidence.
I'm really talking more to myself than to you, because I'm likely to ignore what I just said and pick up the driver, just to see what happens. And what happens, far more often than not, is I hit a banana shot...
In my case, I think this is what explains this perverse tendency: If I go to the driving range to practice with the driver, I'll start out hitting wicked slices every time. I adjust this and that, or maybe just relax into my swing a bit (Who cares? It's just a practice ball!), and after 20 or so balls they start going pretty straight. And a few of them go *dead* straight and *far*. And that's when I get the deadly thought, "Aha, I'm getting the hang of this!" I forget about the 20 or so mega-slices that went before, and I imagine that when I'n the course I'll just resume hitting nice straight ones.
But it doesn't work that way. If it takes me 20 or more balls to "find" my driver swing at the practice range, that really means I'm not yet ready to use the driver on the golf course. If and when I can go to the practice range, do some stretches, and then hit 10 nice straight shots in a row, THEN I'm ready to take the driver out of the bag on the golf course.