Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Listen to It Drop

Yeah, it's been said before in many of those quick tips. Primarily the golf channel has covered this little tidbit - but oddly enough, it falls upon deaf ears.

The tip is of course to listen to your putts drop. Lately I have been working on focusing on a spot before the stroke for the ball to roll over, after that I just keep it in my mind - make the stroke, and wait for the putt to drop.

It's an incredible feeling when you hear the ball roll into the cup.

On the putting greens, just practice this from 2 feet, 5 feet then 10 feet, dont' worry about making the putt - just wait for the sound. Oh, and I advise taking out the flag first - the sound of the ball actually dropping directly into the hole is an incredible "solid" sound.

Soon enough, I know this will help improve my game. My full swing is on target and Slicefixer's style of swing doesn't need too much modification, and at the very least - any consistent practice, especially with the budget I have that is geared for playing rounds to help the HCP.

I'm sure if I continue to follow my own advice, the cap will start dropping - finally I feel like elements of my scoring are starting to take shape.

1 comment:

alanoregan said...

I happened upon your blog. Interesting! I have a similar blog (destinationscratch.blogspot.com) and was looking to see if there was anyone else out there blogging about their scratch goal.
Have you made much progress since you started?
Anyhow, good luck and stick with it!!
Alan