Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
An area of concern in regards of taking your range, you game out on to the golf course, may be they are on the range you are sort of swinging within your limitations, actually on the golf course you are not when you go and play you are trying to do things that aren’t within your normal capable range, you are exceeding your limitations. So on the range if I have got a target that’s a 150 yards away, just take a smooth 7-iron, popping the ball away quite nice and regulate, knocking it in the correct distance. On the golf course I get out there and suddenly it’s 160, but my playing partner, he has pulled a 7-iron and I am thinking, well I have got to try and get my 7-iron and I am going to try and hit it as hard as he is. Well, I am taking myself out of what I know is my comfortable level and I am trying to exceed a normal distance. I am not swinging within myself and of course therefore I am probably not going to hit the ball as well as I was doing on the driving range. So making sure on the range you are swinging within your limitation but also likewise on the golf course.
And limitations aren’t just down to the distance you hit the ball, if on the driving range, you hit, you fade every single time, nothing wrong with that by the way because you are just hitting this fade, fade, fade, fade, try a couple of drills, it doesn’t really work for me, I go back to hitting a fade. You go on the golf course and there is maybe a left to right wind and you threw all be lovely to drove one in them, a playing partners just drill one into that flag and it look fantastic, I am going to try the same thing. Well that’s clearly outside your limitations you weren’t able to do it in practice when you had 10 goes at it. So there is not going to work for real on the golf course, under pressure, you may as well just play within yourself and know what you can do. That fade shot will be perfectly adequate on this occasion as long as you can pull it off, 9 times out of 10 you know and I was expecting to do the same thing every single time, but it’s just don’t try and pull out a quirky level shot that you have seen someone doing on the TV, if you know you weren’t able to do it on the range. So when you play on the golf course, just think every time you are setting up to the ball, using course management skills, you are looking at the shot, it’s play the shot that I know I can play, rather than the shot that I think I should. So don’t think, oh Phil Mickelson will Play this with a flop up and over landing and spin it back, I am going to try the same thing, play to the middle of the green, play the shot you know you can play. And you will actually find your scores and your confidence will start to, your scores will start to improve, your confidence will start to improve because you are playing within your game, within your limitations. 2016-10-03 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
An area of concern in regards of taking your range, you game out on to the golf course, may be they are on the range you are sort of swinging within your limitations, actually on the golf course you are not when you go and play you are trying to do things that aren’t within your normal capable range, you are exceeding your limitations. So on the range if I have got a target that’s a 150 yards away, just take a smooth 7-iron, popping the ball away quite nice and regulate, knocking it in the correct distance. On the golf course I get out there and suddenly it’s 160, but my playing partner, he has pulled a 7-iron and I am thinking, well I have got to try and get my 7-iron and I am going to try and hit it as hard as he is. Well, I am taking myself out of what I know is my comfortable level and I am trying to exceed a normal distance. I am not swinging within myself and of course therefore I am probably not going to hit the ball as well as I was doing on the driving range. So making sure on the range you are swinging within your limitation but also likewise on the golf course.
And limitations aren’t just down to the distance you hit the ball, if on the driving range, you hit, you fade every single time, nothing wrong with that by the way because you are just hitting this fade, fade, fade, fade, try a couple of drills, it doesn’t really work for me, I go back to hitting a fade. You go on the golf course and there is maybe a left to right wind and you threw all be lovely to drove one in them, a playing partners just drill one into that flag and it look fantastic, I am going to try the same thing. Well that’s clearly outside your limitations you weren’t able to do it in practice when you had 10 goes at it. So there is not going to work for real on the golf course, under pressure, you may as well just play within yourself and know what you can do.
That fade shot will be perfectly adequate on this occasion as long as you can pull it off, 9 times out of 10 you know and I was expecting to do the same thing every single time, but it’s just don’t try and pull out a quirky level shot that you have seen someone doing on the TV, if you know you weren’t able to do it on the range. So when you play on the golf course, just think every time you are setting up to the ball, using course management skills, you are looking at the shot, it’s play the shot that I know I can play, rather than the shot that I think I should. So don’t think, oh Phil Mickelson will Play this with a flop up and over landing and spin it back, I am going to try the same thing, play to the middle of the green, play the shot you know you can play. And you will actually find your scores and your confidence will start to, your scores will start to improve, your confidence will start to improve because you are playing within your game, within your limitations.
