Best Tips/Lessons of the season

What are the best tips/lessons you learned through this whole season? I would love to hear what you thing the most important thing you learned this year about your golf game?

For me, it was maintaining the angle in my right wrist as I am hitting through the ball. I found Greg Willis's Right hand drill and since then, I have hit the ball pretty well.

Let's hear them...

Chessbum...

" First of all, think of what you want exactly to do with the ball ".

I keep this in my mind just before hitting it.



Toni.

Returning my right elbow to my side to start the downswing.

Biggest thing I've learned to do is stick to a pre-shot routine, particularly at the range. Doing this has allowed me to establish what "my" good swing feels like.

Its got me from shooting 95-105 to 85-90, only a lack of serious putting practice has stopped me breaking 80 for this year - spare bedroom carpet just aint the same!

Once your fundamentals are down:

Trust your swing, and play your shot type. If your swing produces a fade, play the fade.

If you're blocking everything right, adjust.

Better to play with what you've got, than try and correct it on the course.

1).The golf Channel.com in the video vault 29.95 a year,yes a year!

2).The gentleman from down under Aaron Baddeley likes to put a large bucket of balls right on his target line about 5 - 8 ft in front. The point is to hit balls to the right of the bucket for a right handed player and bring them back to the target.
Move the bucket farther away if you are having trouble this teaches what a inside swing path should feel like.

That is a cool idea (the bucket of balls). Where did you hear that? Was it on the golf channel?

Chessbum...

Yeah, until one ricochets and hits you in the nuts!

The tip came from the golf channel.com. They have what they call the video vault for 29.95 a year you have access to 1200 videos on many different aspects of the great game of golf. CHECK IT OUT.

The best tip I recieved this past season is Greg's Right Hand Drill. The drill both improved my accuracy and distance.

The weird thing is that the drill also helped me understand the golf swing as a whole.

I have learned this past year to play within myself. It is getting cold up/down here in Kansas, and I can't get out that much, so when I do, I keep everything compact, simple, and fluid instead of trying to bomb and expect results that cannot be attained within my abilities.

I symphatize with you about the cold. It is cold here in Ohio too, and I am fretting about how I am going to keep my swing solid over the cold winter months here.

I played today, at a temperature of 34 Deg F. and the greens were frozen. I played the whole course ( a nine hole exec course) with an 8 iron. That is my form of practice right now...


Chessbum...

Actually 2 books:

1) Tom Wishon's 'The Search For The Perfect Golf Club'

and

2) Jim Hardy's 'The Plane Truth For Golfers'

If you haven't already, READ THEM!!!

Ed Goodwin

Read them.

Liked them.

(Well, actually, I'm constantly referencing the Wishon book).

Even though Jim Hardy is a proponent of the one plane swing, in his book, he diagrams both swings, and walks you through them.

Without a doubt it was Greg Willis' description of wrist action and shoulder turn in the swing from his website. It took a while for me to really understand and groove it but it was worth the effort.