anyone here Golf?

[toys2cool]

Like Random Axe, I'm also a former baseball player, but a baseball swing is pretty similar to a golf swing, you're just bent over instead of upright. In baseball, there's a tendency to "over-swing" to make solid contact (think about pulling the ball to left field if you're a right handed batter). In golf, if you over-swing in the same way, you'll go wildly off-course. I always try to use the same swing for driving the ball up the middle in baseball and it tends to work for me.

I'm not saying I'm good by any stretch of the imagination. I play only a handful of times in a year. But, if I put in the practice strokes at the range and the par 3 courses, I find myself shooting high-80s, low-90s on a regular basis on regular courses which is good enough to make me feel hopeful that I might not be a complete moron at the sport.

It is addicting. Unfortunately, my bank account can't keep up with my addiction, so that's why I don't play very often.

toys2cool, if you want to get better at the game, I'd recommend spending a lot of time at the par-3 chip-and-putt courses. Driving 220 yards is a good start, but it's not the drives that lower your scores, it's the way you play around the greens. Early on, when I was still shooting around 100 or so, I spent a summer playing the par-3 course once a week. Cut 10 strokes off my score, easily. Being able to chip the ball to a point where you have a make-able putt is way better than just trying to get it anywhere on the green and 3-putting just about everything. Drive for show, putt for dough.

All right, seeing this is getting me in the mood to start practicing. Game on!

cool bro i'll try that, funny how you say it would go left when you over swing cause that's what kept happening to me

[starsky]

always wanted to but never got around to it.

[Megospidey]

Been playing for around 15 years. Shoot in the low-mid 80's.

Baseball/softball players have a difficult time keeping both feet on the ground during the swing

I can drive the ball consistently 250-275 yards, sometimes 300 with some wind behind my back and a hard fairway.

[kingdom warrior]

same here, some guy told me i was swinging like a baseball bat

That's cause you're a latino and we instincly use it as a weapon.....

I actually have a Golf Club......it sits right next to my Door I don't use it for Golf......if you know what I mean...