Get a shag bag at Walmart ($25) and get about 70 old balls (Find out who dredgest the balls out of the lake of your local course) which will run you $20. Find a park or golf course practice area where you can chip up to 50 yards. Get a plastic trash can and aim for it from 50 yards, 35 yards, 20 yards and 10 yards. Hit atleast 20 balls from each location every day. Find a putting green and spend 30 minutes a day putting. Put 25 balls from 5 foot, 7, 10, 15, 20, 30, and 50 feet. Once you get outside of 20 feet, your main goal is to invision a 3 foot cirle around the hole that you want to make sure you get your fist putt inside of so you don't leave yourself with a 2nd putt of more than 3 foot. If you are consistently putting 3 times per hole, you can forget about breaking 100. Next hit a shag bag of balls with a 9 iron focusing on good swing mechanics (grip, take back, rotation, balance, downswing and follow-though) and mainly hitting the ball straight and resonably well. If you can hit the ball fairly straight most of the times and can make good contact most of the times and chip and put real well, you should be able to break a 90. You have to play a course atleast once a week in addition to this daily routine. You have to keep score. Sometimes when I play by myself or a good friend and we are working on our mechanics, we will go out with 5 clubs, a 5 iron, 7 iron, 9 iron, Sandwedge and putter. I will often break a 90 with these 5 clubs. You will be amazed at how well you can play when you chip and putt well and don't hit out of bounds or in hazards, which rarely happens with a 5, 7 or 9 iron. You will usually get in trouble with 3 iron, driver or 3 wood. When I don't hit them well on the course, I will put them up and tee off with the lowest iron I can hit straight that day (3,4 or 5 iron) and I can still drive 175 to 225 with those irons. I learned this 25 years ago when I was 16 from an 80 year old guy who shot in the low 80's and couldn't hit a ball over 175 yards. I would blow by him off the tee and then he would put on a short game clinic the rest of the way and shoot and 82 and I would shoot a 95 with my 275 yard drives. You will use your putter more than any other club in a round, second will be your PW, SW or Lob wedge depending on which you use within 75 yards, and 3rd off the tee. The key to the tee is to hit the ball straight. If you can't hit a driver straight put it away until you can practice with it and the range. Same goes for your 3 wood, 5 wood, 3 iron. When you play, hit the club that you are most consistent and straight with for that round and practice later. Don't try to figure out a bad club during the round. If you can hit a 3 wood, 5 wood, 3 iron, 5 iron or whatever and get it 200+ yards down the fairway and have honed your short game, you can score in the 80's. So in summary, practice the 3 shots you will do the most during a round: 1. Putting, 2. Chipping (75 yards in) and 3. Getting off the tee STRAIGHT.
[quote=mtcaddy4;366949]and you can't break 100? also, if they only take ten people then who's saying you have to to break 100? don't you just have to place in the top ten (which could be harder or easier)?
#1 it's scary that you know the indexes of every member of your team...to the tenth no less.
its on my schools website in our extra curricular activites section,they have player profiles.
After reading this thread, I get the feeling that SgtPepper is putting you guys on. I hope I'm wrong.
Although I was one of the early posters to the thread, I came to your point of view as the thread developed....although your way of saying it is a lot kinder than what I was thinking...
my advice would have to be to hit 3 woods off the tee and FIND fairways, if you can find greens, play it safe when you have to and go for it when you have to, i did this my freshman year and i shot like an 82 and made it
Sign up for lessons, ASAP. Nothing we explain to you over the computer is going to turn your game around like lessons once a week from a pro.
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You guys certianly have creative minds.
Well, SgtPepper, you've painted a picture of a young golfer who has been practicing for a year, taking a lesson every week, yet hasn't set foot on a golf course, doesn't know what he would shoot if he did, doesn't know what it would take to make the golf team, doesn't even know the difference between a pitch and a chip and yet joins a golf discussion board for advice because he simply HAS to make the team in less than a month...you can't see where someone would consider that a little fishy?
Well, SgtPepper, you've painted a picture of a young golfer who has been practicing for a year, taking a lesson every week, yet hasn't set foot on a golf course, doesn't know what he would shoot if he did, doesn't know what it would take to make the golf team, doesn't even know the difference between a pitch and a chip and yet joins a golf discussion board for advice because he simply HAS to make the team in less than a month...you can't see where someone would consider that a little fishy?
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