SilverUberXeno
El Tigre Blanco
- Jul 26, 2005
- 4,620
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PA, I think your method is MUCH more reliable than "Feel" unless a player gets to practice his "feel" for 10 hours a week.
It's just common sense, honestly. Knowing how far a half-swing (10:30) goes makes it SO much easier to judge getting a little more or a little less on either side of it, and it reduces the necessity of practicing the short game as often as we'd all like to.
If you, like PA, know how far a half-swing 60* goes, it is what it is. If you go by feel, you might be 7-8 yards off and call it a good shot.
All that "feel" is, is mechanics without the numbers. You're not thinking "this is my 10:30 swing", but by the time you feel the right swing- yes, it is your 10:30 swing, or your 9:00 swing, or whatever swing you used to hit that distance the last time you were faced with this shot.
Get some basic mechanics, like a half-swing number, then you can feel around from there. If you want to go pure feel and forget how to hit a shot a certain distance, you may succeed, it'll just take you a lot longer to get through 18 holes.
It's just common sense, honestly. Knowing how far a half-swing (10:30) goes makes it SO much easier to judge getting a little more or a little less on either side of it, and it reduces the necessity of practicing the short game as often as we'd all like to.
If you, like PA, know how far a half-swing 60* goes, it is what it is. If you go by feel, you might be 7-8 yards off and call it a good shot.
All that "feel" is, is mechanics without the numbers. You're not thinking "this is my 10:30 swing", but by the time you feel the right swing- yes, it is your 10:30 swing, or your 9:00 swing, or whatever swing you used to hit that distance the last time you were faced with this shot.
Get some basic mechanics, like a half-swing number, then you can feel around from there. If you want to go pure feel and forget how to hit a shot a certain distance, you may succeed, it'll just take you a lot longer to get through 18 holes.