FIND YOUR NEGATIVE PATTERNS

It is important that your golfing skills develop in a positive direction. It is just as important to detect the problem patterns that develop in your game along the way. Problem patterns such as fat shots, thin shots, toe shots and shanks all exist in varying degrees within the recreational player’s game. Often at a lesson I will ask ‘how’ the student just hit a bad shot and the answer is generally something like “horrible”, “bad” or “brutal”. Although these descriptive words might be accurate they don’t help to define the shot-hitting pattern that is at the root of the golfer’s poor performance. You can determine some problems by putting ‘face tape’ on one of your irons and hitting a few shots. Then, look at the marks that the balls have made on the tape. You will be surprised to see that even though the shots might fly in many different directions, the patterns shown on the clubface will be similar. With this information, developing a game plan to solve the problem will be that much easier.

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