Thread by @adamyounggolf

Top 11 tips to play your worst #golf

1. Go down a Youtube rabbit hole.

Try every swing tip, even if it has no relevance to your own swing. Follow every trend. Hooking it? Watch that video on lead wrist flexion and try to implement it

2. Make your practice nothing like your play

Hit balls from the same spot, over and over, with the same club, to the same target. In fact, don't even have a target.... just hit them into the aether, using the full width of the range as your barometer of success

3. Go into a round with high expectations.

You're a perfectionist, so one bad shot should be met with disgust and despair. Forget that Hogan said "I only hit 3 good shots a round". He's clearly a hack. You demand better of yourself

4. Aim at the pin every time.

Sure, even the pros miss 40% of greens. Hell, even a golf robot has lateral dispersion. But how are you gonna make those birdies without firing at the flag?

5. You're 170 out, pin tucked front edge, water short

Remember that time you hit your 7 iron 175? Downhill/wind, at 6000 ft elevation in Tahoe. And it had that bounce off the sprinkler?

Yeah, hit that club. In fact, you might have too much. Drop to an 8. All the trouble is long

6. Remember, swing mechanics matter the most.

So try to remember every single swing move you've ever worked on. If you hit a bad shot, it's because you forgot one of them.

To be able to think of more, put thoughts into categories.
🟢Set up
🟢backswing
🟢transition
🟢follow thru

7. Video your swing on the course

Forget about scoring, instinct, playing the GAME.

Make the prettiest swing you can and, even if the results suck, at least you will be able to post it on instagram.

8. Golf is very difficult

Surely this must mean that the most complex answer is the right one

Occam can go shave himself with that Razor

If you're missing left, forget about just opening the face a couple of deg at address. Instead, try to change your entire kinematic sequence

9. Stats/notes are for geeks

Never mind the fact you lost 8 shots out there from poor club selection. Hit the range and continue working on that top of the swing position. That'll solve it!

10. Forget about improving your green reading.

Instead, buy some device that helps you build a perfect stroke every time. We want to be rolling the ball perfectly towards our awful line selection

11. Build a library of cliches

When you're playing poorly, cycle between them. Eventually, one will start working for ya

Here's some to start you off
🟢head down
🟢left arm straight
🟢swing easy
🟢low and slow

12. don't accept slow learning

When trying something new, give yourself 2 shots. If you don't hit a good shot within those first two balls, change to something else.

Bob (21 handicap) had something working for him last week. Try that.

13. Build the perfect swing

Forget about the fact that there are loads of functional swings on tour that all look different. Those losers obviously couldn't commit the same time/effort that you can towards building that perfect, textbook motion.

14. Buy a new driver every year.

Each new model is 20 yards longer than last year's. So in 10 years, you'll be hitting it 200 yards longer.

Also buy a new putter if you have a bad round.

15. Try a bunch of different swing models.

Spend 3 years doing the "X" method. Then after you find you're still awful, move to the next fashionable one.

OR, you could work on things that will actually make you better.

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