Point and Shoot Properly
April 8, 2008
The other day, my buddies and I were teeing off on a par-5, a dog-leg right with trees on the right and a row of houses and out-of-bounds on the left. Bob, a pretty good golfer, set up, teed off and his ball shot straight into the trees. He looked at us, perplexed, and said, “How did I do that?!“. We all said in unison, “You were set up that way.” The point is that even the best of golfers sometimes line up their shots incorrectly. Sometimes, the hole doesn’t set up well for the eye. Some golfers have aligned their shots incorrectly for years and have learned to compensate with their swing to make the ball go where they aim. On those occasions when they don’t compensate, their shots go off-line. So the next time you’re having a tough time getting the ball to go you where you want it to go, it may be how you’re lined up and not how you swing the club. Read the rest of this entry »
