__________________ Yani Tseng, Go! Go! Go! Yani Tseng Did It Again! YOU load and sustain the "LAG", during which the "LAW" releases it, ideally beyond impact.
"Sustain (Yang/陽) the lag (Yin/陰)" is "the unification of Ying and Yang" (陰陽合一).
The "LAW" creates the "effect", which is the "motion" or "feel", with the "cause", which is the "intent" or "command".
"Lag" is the secret of golf, passion is the secret of life.
Think as a golfer, execute like a robot.
Rotate, twist, spin, turn. Bend the shaft.
Short game allows you to go low when you are hitting it well. Short game allows you to scrape out a decent score when you are not hitting it well.
Give me a guy with a very solid game from 100 yards and in, and I don't care what angle, extensor, pivot, 75-b-q-1.65.32.12 motion he makes. This game is about making a repeating swing and getting the ball in the hole.
Everytime you practice, keep mechanics out of the equation for the majority of the time and you will learn to play this game well.
Great post Toolish. It doesn't matter how you hit the ball, its what you write down on the score card is the name of the game. Although hitting the ball well makes it a lot easier
One more reason, in TGM parlance, is that the short game is a path to the long game. A chip may use one accumulator, a pitch 2 and the total motion 3. This additive approach is one reason why the swings of chips are miniature drives. TGM was singular in this approach among commonly known Golf methods of the day. It is much easier and beneficial to practice chips for an hour, pitches for an hour and you long game for just a fraction of the time. Each accumulator can be given a good going over one at a time.
I'd rather be hitting 12 greens and shooting 75 than shooting 75 while hitting only 6 greens and getting up and down 75% of the time. The 6 greens scrambler is rarely going to shoot lower than 75...the guy hitting 12 greens has much more scoring "potential".
Now the real trick is learning to be the guy that hits 12-14 greens and gets up and down 75% of the time
Originally Posted by Toolish
Think about it this way...
Say you are a semi ok ball striker...you hit 6/18 greens (all of which you 2 putt) and the other 12 you are within 30m off for GIR shots.
Of those 12, if you get up and down 25% of the time you shoot 9 over, UD = 50% you shoot 6 over, UD = 75% you shoot 3 over.
There is a direct correlation between short game and scoring, much more so than for the long game. There is no difference on the score card between:
drove it up the middle, 7 iron on, 2 putts = 4.
Drove it left, punched out to 60m short of the green, wedge to 5 feet, holed it = 4.
Jack Nicklaus said he practiced his long game more than his short game. He figured if he was driving the ball well, and hitting greens... he would do well. Not that he didn't practice his short game at all, he did practice it.
He came in to speak one time just after Bob Rotella had been talking about the importance of the short game... 60% of scoring within 100 yards etc.. He said something like... "I heard that, but I didn't do it that way."
I believe he figured out what worked for him pretty well.
Someone else may do better with more emphasis on their short game. Others may do better by just playing a lot of golf, with only a little practice. Figure out what works best for you.
I'd rather be hitting 12 greens and shooting 75 than shooting 75 while hitting only 6 greens and getting up and down 75% of the time. The 6 greens scrambler is rarely going to shoot lower than 75...the guy hitting 12 greens has much more scoring "potential".
Now the real trick is learning to be the guy that hits 12-14 greens and gets up and down 75% of the time
While I certainly agree the shortgame is 'the' key to obtaining the best score out of any given situation, I had a harsh reminder this weekend of how much driving alters the scorecard...
birdied 5 out of my first 10 holes with only 1 par and every bogey was the direct result of a bad tee shot. Granted, I could have saved at least two pars, but the others were really 'good' bogeys.
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