Monday, 2 April 2012

Can playing Tiger Woods on consoles improve your golf? Question.

This is the first blog I've ever done so I apologise in advance for the extreme boredom that may occur during this post. As a golf professional I work every day trying to improve peoples golf games, including my own. The thing that I love about this is that you are always learning something new. I've played for just under 20 years and coached for 15 and still I feel that every day brings a fresh improvement to both areas. That is the beauty of the game.
In my own case I thought my mental approach to playing was pretty sound, until I started to analyse my rounds more. Not just the physical stats but also my state of my and thoughts over shots. I compared my shot choices on Tiger Woods on XBox to my shot choices in a real round. The area that stood out was that I would actually play more sensibly on the video game than in real life, especially when it came to choice of club of the tee. I was happy laying back to 7 iron distance in TW but when out playing I would always think 'lets get it as close as possible to green' in spite of the risks, and the fact my iron play is the strongest part of my game. The number of shots I dropped hitting driver on holes of around 400yds  where a 220-230 yd hybrid will leave me a 6 or 7 iron in is numerous and stupidity itself.
Now I've decided to approach the game with a brain as opposed to an ego, I'll have to let you know if it has the results I hope to achieve.

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