DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post

**grosqueneen** · 02-09-2009, 10:17 PM

When I started playing golf 8 years ago, I was really just hacking it around trying to get under 100. I didn't really care if I hit it in the rough, I wasn't good enough to hit the greens if I had it teed up. Actually, being in the rough helped me get the ball airborne if it wasn't too thick.

After a couple of years, I started to see the advantage of being in the short stuff because I could actually hit off a normal fairway lie and at least get it around the green.

I think that is the turning point for every golfer.

Everyone who has seriously tried to learn this game has had to cross that threshold - to go from fearing a "tight lie" to actually preferring one.

We've all gone through that stage of actually hoping for a lie in light rough because it meant that we'd be able to get the ball airborne more easily, but we secretly knew that a fairway lie was better because it meant we could control the ball, but man, it was hard to hit one of those shots!

But once we overcame that fear of stubbing the club or "chili-dipping" it, we took a giant step forward and we began to look at the game from a whole different perspective and we began to see ourselves as possibly being able to actually score and actually play golf.

Good stuff, C-tech!

-JP

02-09-2009, 10:17 PM	#2
grosqueneen Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	When I started playing golf 8 years ago, I was really just hacking it around trying to get under 100. I didn't really care if I hit it in the rough, I wasn't good enough to hit the greens if I had it teed up. Actually, being in the rough helped me get the ball airborne if it wasn't too thick. After a couple of years, I started to see the advantage of being in the short stuff because I could actually hit off a normal fairway lie and at least get it around the green. I think that is the turning point for every golfer. Everyone who has seriously tried to learn this game has had to cross that threshold - to go from fearing a "tight lie" to actually preferring one. We've all gone through that stage of actually hoping for a lie in light rough because it meant that we'd be able to get the ball airborne more easily, but we secretly knew that a fairway lie was better because it meant we could control the ball, but man, it was hard to hit one of those shots! But once we overcame that fear of stubbing the club or "chili-dipping" it, we took a giant step forward and we began to look at the game from a whole different perspective and we began to see ourselves as possibly being able to actually score and actually play golf. Good stuff, C-tech! -JP
	Quote