The biggest problem for us golfers, I suspect, is that we are eternally hopeful, and that shows the game time and again that old adage about to marry again - shows the triumph of optimism over experience, play .
Despite the fact that the game can make you happy, very old people that the best thing that has managed to ride the crest of the wave is that our dreams of playing well, removing money from Our enemies in general the first tee on the third, we always- To think or hope - that will be better next time. And this is part of the problem. A golf game offers 17 new, new beginning, so no matter what we have on the previous hole, there is always a chance to get things right, starting from the next tee.
What we fail to recognize that is unique to "make the right decisions" is impossible and the best we have to wait or hope is to make it less wrong than we did last week. Unfortunately, we need to think and analyze ourErrors, and then eliminate or reduce them to practice - and where's the fun in that?
No, let's just go on as we are, and celebrate two days in a year where we have almost dominated the game. And in the meantime, here are the most obvious ways in which we are wrong.
A round
We should:
Come and save at least half an hour. Hit a ball field or practice field - no more than a dozen, just to see whatGame that day and we need to relax the muscles. Visit the putting green for five minutes to check our stock to ensure that we have more than 14 clubs and that was all that could be what we need - waterproof, spare balls, drinks and so on - are there too.
We know that:
Too late to arrive and jump on the first tee, things are as they go and seek our advice and golf shoes to run simultaneously. Oh, and a bad day we run out of golf balls from 13, because we have notTime to check our offer before the game.
During the game
We should:
You can fully concentrate on every shot, especially the most important day of the opening tee shot. After that, it is important to only look ahead to the next shot, not back to the previous one. Equally important, however, is not specifically to preserve oneself. The game is really played in one stroke at a time.
We know that:
Hit a bad shot and immediately realize that we have no idea what we were thinking aboutor try to achieve during the swing phase. A really bad shot, like a missed putt six feet, plays on our mind for several holes, failed for the time being of our guests or the game is lost. Conversely, if we play well, then start thinking about how good the reviews are finished, you may start to press and run up double figures on a hole.
Club Selection
We should:
Corrections for wind speed and direction, if the shot up or down, and the way we hit the ball on thisgiven day. If in doubt between the clubs, more choice based on the fact that our goal will their golf balls selected at least 12 times in one round.
We know that:
Know that we, once broke a 7-iron 160 yards, downhill with a following breeze on a hot day, so baby forever ourselves, which is 160 meters for us, a 7-iron. We wonder why we are keeping the bunkers at the front of the green, and never put two and two together, no matter how often weto play.
After the game
We should:
Clean our club, dry that each device could have bathed in newspapers and / or a tree in our shoe golf shoes can draw moisture to prevent or break or lose shape.
We know that:
He throws his racket and shoes in the garage and forgot about it until our next round.
Practice
We should:
Hit a couple of wedges to get the muscles loose and then create the 8-iron, wood and 4-channel, for example, beforetried the driver, and then slowly wind down, ending with a pair of half or three quarters away wedges. We also know how important it is to practice short game, as is, where most attacks will be taken.
We know that:
Not practical except in very rare cases when we have a ride to remember that the course is closed because it hosts a major event. So we reluctantly head for the area where we get away with the driver for a half hour whale.
TheRegular
We should:
Ideally have a good knowledge of the rules of golf, but at least some understanding for those most frequently used.
We know that:
Does not even know how to fix a drop from a water hazard.
NB: Probably, however, is exceptional in that list, since only three people in the world have a complete understanding of the Rules of Golf. They are David Rickman, rules secretary for R & A, USGA and his counterpart whoThey are drawn against in the next round of knockout competition your club's match play.
Equipment
We should:
Consider personalization. It always guarantees the best club to meet our particular swing. Why buy off the rack, if you have something to suit your features, costs more to? Otherwise, it would not hurt a visit to our local pro for advice. Especially if you have a number of clubs to be more suitable stop them.
We know that:
Spend muchmore than we can afford for long, and after the last "hot iron or wood, simply because playing Tiger or Ernie. We still think that good grades can be purchased in the store Pro, while things can be achieved, there are tea, drinks, Mars bars, balls to spare half a dozen last week and have lost the ability to dry may be, having caught in a freak shower in the clubhouse and parking.
Teaching
We should:
Regularly attend a PGA professional organization;Building rapport and trust, knowing that when we fall, anyone knows an expert eye to our bikes and old habits do not look if you can. We also had to learn in all areas of the game - Bunker and putt, for example - and not only at full speed. Finally, it is often a good idea, a doctrine, if you play well, to reinforce what you actually have.
We know that:
Listen to advice from someone on track, no matter how manyStrokes higher than ours seems to be his handicap. And we for one hour, when our game to where it has deteriorated almost beyond help go. After the time for the third hole of our next find the changes we have said are too difficult to master in trouble to take leave and return to all our bad habits, happy muttered: "Better the devil I know."
Ambitions
We should:
Remember the old but true saying: "It is notQuestion: "How," but "how." This is the philosophy of tour pros who are still accepted, absolutely the best in the world, what they do - to the point where even a term for what "play ugly" is. This means guests can gather, no matter how bad they are swinging the club.
We know that:
We are constantly beat us under some vague, idealized vision of how we should play. Still not convinced? Then answer the following questionhonest.
Given the choice, at par with three holes you prefer?
a) the ball as sweet and pure that goes beyond you ever taken, especially the front of the club, with the result that the green flies.
b) on high so damn bad that the finger prick and the ball runs on the floor between two bunkers on the green.
If you answered 'A' to illustrate the point perfectly. If yes, "answered b ', are six.
Rhythm game
Usshould:
Step lively, be ready to play when you turn it is to reject the clumsy antics copy Tour professionals do not leave bags and trolleys on the "wrong side of the green mark our score cards next to the tee and in general get a move.
We know that:
Chatter about our company and forget the train, play, make a point of Lot-hopping Every putt, although we have no idea what you have achieved, our car is too close, so that after registration, we our position to movefor us because it disturbs the line of swing, we are looking for dreams at a very attractive cloud formation, or a beautiful view. We wonder why the move of the group ahead of us always with the speed of a glacier, while those behind Dash about 90 mph, able to show their body language that she is bored and frustrated, ready to play soon you get the hell out of his way.
Etiquette
We should:
marked step repair or replace divots and rakeBunker. Talk calmly called by others, once you find that we must look for a ball and put all our waste in one of the boxes in progress, or our pocket until we can toss later. Furthermore, we should dress appropriately and in accordance with the dress code club.
We know that:
Turn an old pair of trousers and a gardening shirt with the inscription: "Where's the tee is, and what the course record?" Repair pitch marks and so on until someone elseobserved and if we get away, our empty cans thrown into the nearest bush (well, someone has to, because every time I need a ball on my site, of course, forests and foliage full search of empty cans and cigarette packets ). Oh, and it is a matter of honor, never, never, never call another group by, if you happen to know that the team captain, president or secretary Among them.
Behavior
We should:
Treat our opponents and competitorsRespect and courtesy, not as shaking coins in his pocket, sneezing, coughing or delete a complete set of golf clubs on the ground to play with, as he soon. We must remember that golf is the last bastion of sportsmanship and etiquette is also woven into the game rules des
We know that:
All we can ensure that your day is worse than ours. This includes betting on everything and try his stroke, said: "Two for the half"when a 18-inch putt to win the hole, and ask how to get hits the ball so far with such an obvious lateral wrist pronation during the first part of the snack. This new scam is the way, as old as the hills, but some players still for them.
Tactics
We should:
Weigh to go our way and not for shooting once-in-a-life, when we are in Match Play, and so far behind that of hell or bust. Never be ashamed to declare the ball unplayable. UsIt should also, if needed, our medicine, hack or chips take sides and try to limit the damage.
We know that:
Do you have an inflated sense of our own capacity, with the result that we are trying constantly to do miracles as recycling shots, but with a Guarantee that you will not run, a double bogey. The problem is to ensure that the guarantee will be in double digits at the end.
Club House Etiquette
We should: Always remember that golf is a game for gentlemenand act accordingly, with our hands for the eighth round after a first washing in a bar and not treat it as a men only club (unless it is of course). As should be at least listening to a lot of time "to tell stories of golf, like ours.
You know: to tell dirty jokes in a loud voice, ignoring women and juniors huddled in a corner, before any party desperately unlucky bogey six for 18, we scored - not like our bestFriend, simply the best ride of his life, he made his first Hole-in-one, word began to come.
Attitude toward others
We should: Regard juniors, seniors, women, and companies are just as entitled as we visit with us to extend the golf course and give them the same courtesy, consideration and good manners, as if they were to visit a group of tour pros .
We know his mother, wailing and cursing at every stroke that they completely forget that weunskilled and even hated, looked at the Gulf of snobs who think character, the only valid measure of a person is his (or her) disability.
The game
We should: Always remember that golf is much harder than a game of subtlety, and so, as soon as it is always more important than long hitting. As Harvey Penick, who used to distinguish both Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite during their career taught to say: "The woods are full of longBat. "
We know that we take our foot in the increasingly desperate efforts to squeeze a few meters and measure all golfers by one criterion - the distance you hit the ball. If we have a retired bank manager who adopts a 5-iron on every hole, Bunts play no more, the 160 yards and scores 82, we have forgotten it after two hours. But we misspelt couple with a gum-Neanderthal with tattoos that he meets, by his own admission, "too big" on the roadShooting 112, we tell all our friends - in tones of awe silenced - for days after.
Sportsmanship
We should:
Show respect and encouragement to fellow golfers, whether playing partner or opponent. This means that congratulate them good shots and provide compassion for the poor. And if you lose a game, shake hands you say, "Well done", and seriously.
We know that:
Use every aspect
of Gamesmanship we leave withoutdirectly to cheat. Obviously we want nothing but damage the ball as he is on the run, and when the ancient curse under our breath that caused her mother to do, as I said, and fly out of bounds that we liked in fake grin and say , 'bad luck'.
Club membership
We should:
Do you have understanding, compassion and encouragement to all employees of the club, whether the Secretary, pro, Greenkeeping, catering or other staff. We must recognize that they have special abilities, knowledge isand skills that we do not own, and looking for ways we can help in managing the club.
We know that:
Join the Greens Committee and on the sole basis that we have a lawn, so what we say, of course Superintendent lesson (which only went to school to study for three years, I know of Agricultural Sciences, topography, meteorology and other numerous "GIE ') on the way to the green 12 to restore its former glory. And if he or she can not hear, we doSecretary-life is a misery, with the request that the superintendent be fired.
Strategy
We should:
To explore the hole from the tee to try to understand what is in the mind of the architect, and because the risks are trees, the potential risks of high and located where they are. We should then at some point on the fairway (or green), which is the best focus at the flag pole with our attack next shot.
We know that:
Take always at eye level and four driversfive holes and finish, vaguely, for "somewhere on the lawn short.
Uh, that's all.
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