Don’t Cheat – Just Copy

Three Guys Golf Blog:  

Fact: Professional golfers have more money and time than all weekend hackers combined. Fact: Despite the inherent advantage pros have, there are many habits we can copy with little additional time or money.  Fact:  We seldom take advantage of the opportunity to model our game from the pros. Conclusion: we are not very smart.

For example every pro uses alignment sticks on the range at least 75% of the time but we never do. Pros spend at least 50% practicing their short game-we blast a bucket of drivers. Pros play with the best equipment and $50 balls we play with 10 year old drivers and $7 balls.  How about we split the difference, get a decent used club (which can double as alignment stick) and pony up for a dozen $20 balls instead of something called “Raw” or anything that starts with the word “Top”.

Don’t Cheat, but definitely copy

Gimmicks aside, a very effective trait to emulate from the pros is patience.  Watching golf on TV, it is hard to get a sense of how long these guys take to hit a shot. Don’t get me wrong, I would never advocate slow play, but again lets split the difference.  How about we take a couple of practice swings, get a semblance of a pre-shot routine and maybe put down the smoke before we try to drain a 6 footer?

God knows, I am as guilty as the next guy, but I am convinced that if we just copy just a few simple and free habits from the Pros we can improve are game significantly.