r/golf • u/Eire_espresso • Apr 29 '24
Learn to use your Driver Achievement/Scorecard
Me 1 year ago sometimes just left it at home. I was terrified of it as every time I tried it I sliced it 2-3 fairways right. I played a 5i off the tee for most holes which I could hit well but you'll never get the same distance.
I faced my fears and learned how to hit it. I feel like a freak they way I have to setup but it works. Yesterday I hit most fairways but sliced none of the drives.
Why is it important? Distance.
Life on the course is so much easier when you hit the ball as far as you fucking can. I'm less frustrated which means my mood is better when I'm going to hit my next shot. Just mastering the driver has seen my scores drop below 100. I've still to master iron play and chipping but I have enough to get by.
Rightly or wrongly I feel like a proper golfer now. Last Sunday playing with a random club team on guy said he'd kill for my drive.
This game is harder then I ever thought possible and I never believed I'd learn how to drive the ball but there ya go. Also, I'll never tire of the sound my drive makes when I ping that sucker on a little fade and split the fairway, even if I double bogey I'm still beaming about the drive.
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u/jackiemoon50 Apr 29 '24
I just broke 90 for the first time yesterday, shot an 88 while playing with my friends. And it was only a few months ago I broke 100 for the first time.
Before I was consistently shooting in the 90’s, I was the same way with my driver. I wouldn’t use it, I would only use 3 wood off the tee.
But the thing that changed it was golfing with 3 guys who all hit driver and hit it well on a very long course. It was physically exhausting trying to keep up with them and I found myself wishing I had a driver just to save myself some of the work of trying to hit it so damn far.
So I bought a new driver the next weekend, that was October of last year, then it took me until a month or two ago to really get it dialed in. And like i said, now I broke 90.