Whats the best tip you ever got?

[Sluggo42 6,033]

So one of the best tips I've had in a while was to get the forged CB clubs, and to quit trying to be a pro and hit the blades.

I might be able to hit the blades now that I'm swinging pretty well, but I have gotten away with quite a few shots that the old mp-33's wouldnt have let me have.

 

Another was from this site, suggesting to get the club more into the fingers, rather than the palm.

 

Another was to try out the MG C4 Tour ball. Its a pretty darn nice ball for $19.99

 

Another was to move the ball back an inch in my putting stance... Weird huh?

 

What tips stick in your mind that helped in some way or another?

[hckymeyer 6,238]

Last year it was to roll my left hand farther to the right in my grip (stronger grip)

 

This year it was to play for the middle of the green and not go after pins on the edges of greens.

[MattF 9,554]

Don't bet on horses.

[Hula Rock 700]

From my father teaching the golf swing: "You always watch a bad shot"

[RookieBlue7 1,680]

Don't drink and hit driver.

[greenadam21 2]

Practice is only as good as your plan. There is practice and there is banging balls.

[Walkerjames 4]

Short putts never go in!

[GolfSpy WD 13]

Don't listen to tips

[revkev 22,150]

Know whether you are a one plane or two planer because tips that work for one screw with the other.

 

I've also received WD's advise and would rank that as my second best tip.

[Stephen_Peszel 8]

Don't read tips in the Golf Digest, it worked for someone else but not for you. It will play with your head and ruin your swing, and it will take paid professional help to fix it.

[Sluggo42 6,033]

I figured this topic would bring out the smart alecks in the crowd. And sure enough....

[BK in TEXAS 190]

Best tip?

 

"Just because you can (or can't) drive the green doesn't mean you need to use your driver."

[GolfSpy WD 13]

Yep, Absolutely!!

 

At the age of 7yo, my grandmother(A 4-time State Women's Am Champion) told me that when it was time, she would get me a teacher(I was 11yo when I had my first lesson) and he was THE ONLY person that I was to listen to. Until then, she would be my teacher(Though an Am, she, a HS Principal, also was a golf instructor), and again, I was to listen to noone but her.

 

She said that the only "tips" that I was to ever acccept were for work rendered, haha.

 

I've adhered to her advice my whole life, lol, and it's served me well. I started with my teacher at the age of 14yo and stayed with him for the next 36+ years, until his passing.

 

It's funny cuz in '09, he said that the worst things to come to golf were the golf mags and the Golf Channel, haha, due to all of the tips offered.

 

 

Fairways & Greens 4ever

 

I tell that to my boy all the time. Once he's ready to try another teacher, then I'll stop being his coach.

 

People seem to feel its ok to go up to kids and give them bad swing advice. They do it to my boy all the time to the point where we've come up with a canned response: "Thanks, next time I'm on the range I'll have to try that"

 

One guy told him to stop using his legs to create lift when swinging

[GolfSpy WD 13]

Yeah, I wasn't trying to be smart either. It's seriously the best tip I've ever gotten.

[Mr_Theoo 3,144]

Best advice I've gotten here at MGS was from RP to visualize the shot and not think about the shot before or the shot coming after.

[Sluggo42 6,033]

I meant smart alecks in a nice way...

 

Interesting though, in some of these things I never thought of, along the lines of DONT give or take tips.

 

Two holes in today with a stranger at a new track, the guy told me to please watch his swing and tell him what he needs to do. So I told to hit it in the middle, and sink all putts...

 

The guy hits it about 175 , but right down the middle. He was about 65.

What in the world would I possibly tell him?

 

What I was looking for was small tidbits that you personally remember, not major swing structural changes... Not looking to change the world today...

[Sluggo42 6,033]

Best advice I've gotten here at MGS was from RP to visualize the shot and not think about the shot before or the shot coming after.

 

This might be something I start up with... I hit about 3 shots today subconsciously doing that pre hit, and they went exactly as I envisioned.

 

This might be a winner...

[RookieBlue7 1,680]

Hey, I wasn't being a smart arse when I said "don't drink and hit driver". I got that bit of advice during a scramble where I ended up sitting in the cart the last 4 holes because I drank a bunch of beer and liquor and couldn't hit my butt with both hands.

[BIG STU 7,189]

I tell that to my boy all the time. Once he's ready to try another teacher, then I'll stop being his coach.

 

People seem to feel its ok to go up to kids and give them bad swing advice. They do it to my boy all the time to the point where we've come up with a canned response: "Thanks, next time I'm on the range I'll have to try that"

 

One guy told him to stop using his legs to create lift when swinging

I agree with you 110% on that statement I see it all the time which in a way is a noble attempt to bond or whatever but if the person cant hit a bull in the arse with a bass fiddle what the heck is he doing trying to teach someone else?? I like you son's canned response though good answer. I have had some guys that want me to work with their grandsons etc but I politely decline. I am in no way shape or form a golf instructor. I do a lot of things wrong in my swing and I do things that are not fundamentaly right but get away with it. I cannot honestly tell you what I do. I will say one thing I am mostly an instinct and feel player and that is two things I cannot explain or even begin to. That Arnold Palmer/ Dicks commercial says it all for me personally "swing your swing not someone elses or one you wish you had"