Introducing Golfdirt Quicktips: Try, Keep or Chuck
November 13, 2006 – 3:20 pm | by GolfdirtAm I the best golfer in the world? Not even close. But I am a writer and a halfway decent fact/data collector (hoarder, really). For some reason, I’ve been keeping notes on the tons of golf tips I can’t help but stumble upon online and off. Years’ worth of the stuff.
Well, I’ve decided to go through my golf tip notebooks and text files and start posting all my faves right here.
As for whether the tips will be universally applicable, a little story: When I was a beginner, I devoured all the golf magazines I could get my hands on. One of the first I got was Golf Magazine’s “Best 100 Tips” issue (or something like that), with stuff from big name golfers and instructors (Arnold, Jack, Lee, Leadbetter, Pelz, etc. etc. etc.). So no reason to question any of the advice, right?
Yeah, right. One tip, which I’m sure you’ve already heard many a time, and I paraphrase: “Swing easy and don’t hit so hard.” Sounds good. But another top hundred tip in the very same issue: “Swing as hard as you can all the time!”
Huh? Different pros, both big name winners, with tips that were in direct head-on confilct with each other.
And that was probably the best tip I figured out from that magazine:
We’re each unique. Only thing we can do is try a tip. Keep it if it works, chuck it out if it doesn’t.
A tip that doesn’t work doesn’t mean it’s bad — heck, chances are it worked for the golfer who threw it out there for us to consume — it just means it’s not a fit for you.
OK, now that I’ve sufficiently shielded myself from your wrath and covered my derriere, let’s begin…
