This seems to me like a great way of training in an environment that won’t forgive your mistakes at all – I’d recommend it to anyone near a beach, a desert or a usable bunker. Any dangers with this?
Chris
You have to be a little careful taking divots in some deserts. I play some of my golf at EAFB (Mojave desert). The fairways are not too bad in that you can take shallow divots, but hitting out of the desert is an entirely different matter. You have to be very careful when hitting down. The ground is not sandy soft, but more like sandy stone (ooops, I made a funny ). Sprained or broken wrists are a significant possibility if not careful (they do occasionally land the shuttle on this stuff). You might rephrase to say anywhere with soft, deep sand rather than use the ugly, desert word.
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Steph
Distance is Magic; Precision is Practice.
You have to be a little careful taking divots in some deserts. I play some of my golf at EAFB (Mojave desert). The fairways are not too bad in that you can take shallow divots, but hitting out of the desert is an entirely different matter. You have to be very careful when hitting down. The ground is not sandy soft, but more like sandy stone (ooops, I made a funny ). Sprained or broken wrists are a significant possibility if not careful (they do occasionally land the shuttle on this stuff). You might rephrase to say anywhere with soft, deep sand rather than use the ugly, desert word.
Sorry, I was entertaining romatic Saharan des*rt notions. We have lots of beaches and golf courses in New Zealand, but not very many real des*rts! Perhaps Bedouin TGMers could use this tip though!
You have to be a little careful taking divots in some deserts. I play some of my golf at EAFB (Mojave desert). The fairways are not too bad in that you can take shallow divots, but hitting out of the desert is an entirely different matter. You have to be very careful when hitting down. The ground is not sandy soft, but more like sandy stone (ooops, I made a funny ). Sprained or broken wrists are a significant possibility if not careful (they do occasionally land the shuttle on this stuff). You might rephrase to say anywhere with soft, deep sand rather than use the ugly, desert word.
I would stick to the beach or the bunker. Hitting off desert is not fun and ruins your clubs. Trust me I ruined a perfectly good LW by using it on a 40 yard pitch shot from the desert in AZ. Make a funny noise at impact but boy did that thing spin
Alex
I would stick to the beach or the bunker. Hitting off desert is not fun and ruins your clubs. Trust me I ruined a perfectly good LW by using it on a 40 yard pitch shot from the desert in AZ. Make a funny noise at impact but boy did that thing spin
Alex
Yep, if ya pinch one out here real hard, then you can leave scorch marks on the green! You will also leave score lines on the bottom of your irons.
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Steph
Distance is Magic; Precision is Practice.
Yep, if ya pinch one out here real hard, then you can leave scorch marks on the green! You will also leave score lines on the bottom of your irons.
Well I was down to my last few golf balls and it was a Rock Flite that I managed to spin off the green!!
But I do agree with practising/hitting shots out of the beach/bunkers as it teaches you so much without actually getting bogged down in mechanics.
A certain Spanish Wizard called Ballersteros learned to play golf this way and he did ok didn't he?
Alex
). Sprained or broken wrists are a significant possibility if not careful (they do occasionally land the shuttle on this stuff). You might rephrase to say anywhere with soft, deep sand rather than use the ugly, desert word.
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