My golf pro uses pitching as an example for "loading up"
Slow back swing and loaded front follow through.
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Instruction What sport trasitions into golf the best?
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Slow back swing and loaded front follow through.
Boxing, power comes from the hips.
Banging your head off a brick wall repeatedly helps transition to the mental aspects…. 
I think truly great golf comes from exceptional hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, which many elite athletes have in a variety of sports. Strength would be a secondary beneficial factor. Steph Curry being poster child for this. And of course, lots of practice specifically at golf for muscle memory.
That’s what I wonder too. Like the guy I’m watching on Youtube, Jerome Ruffin, who wants to become a scratch golfer starting from nothing.. his swing is already out of this world in like 5 months. Granted, he is doing this full time with practice, world class coaching, playing, etc. but still.. I don’t think I’d ever hope to be where he is in the same circumstances and amount of time lol. He played college basketball I believe and seems to have very good hand eye coordination. The distances he hits and his overall swing are just so crazy to me for the amount of time he’s been playing.. obviously he has plenty to learn playing and is still inconsistent as anyone would be playing for such a short time, but I am so jealous of his progress!
Bowling, Bocce ball, corn hole, darts.
Virtually anything that promotes a beer belly and some accuracy.
Virtually anything that promotes a beer belly and some accuracy.
I would think that core strength is key, but I don't golf. My mom still golfs at 93 (played 18 yesterday), and is a retired field hockey and softball coach. She swears that 30+ years of batting the ball to her outfielders during practice has given her a great swing. At 93 she doesn't hit it far anymore, but she hits it arrow-straight every dang time. Everyone wants her on their team when they play best ball.
Banging your head off a brick wall repeatedly helps transition to the mental aspects….
Do you find that having a flask in your bag juuuuuust in case, helps?
This thread has made me ponder why I didn't ever develop a game when I took up golf in 2006.
Since moving west, I have become more athletic, have taken more ski clinics and have become a better student as an athlete. I'm wondering of that is one (just one) of the many things that has helped me pick up the game quicker this year.
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I'm going to kinda blow up the hockey thing. I'm decent at hockey but suck at golf mostly. I think it's generally athleticism, muscle memory and hand-eye.
That lake house needs a bigger wood pile. Chop chop.
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There's a decent chance I'd lose a foot...
True story, when we were 9 or 10, we were back in the bush building a tree fort..or continuing to build as other kids before us had started it. One of my buddies decided he was going to be lumberjack kid and stand on the log while he was chopping it. Had to carry him 2 miles out of the bush to the house to get him to the hospital after he split his foot in half. Hard lesson to learn!There's a decent chance I'd lose a foot...
There are some great golfers from the hockey crowd..Jeff O'Neill, Dan Quinn, Grant Fuhr..but I think it's just more down to hand-eye and athleticism. Fuhr was a goalie.
Instruction What sport trasitions into wood chopping the best?
(and can I use my balance board?)
True story, when we were 9 or 10, we were back in the bush building a tree fort..or continuing to build as other kids before us had started it. One of my buddies decided he was going to be lumberjack kid and stand on the log while he was chopping it. Had to carry him 2 miles out of the bush to the house to get him to the hospital after he split his foot in half. Hard lesson to learn!
Had a similar incident in college when one of my friends tried to 'help' by raising the other end of the log. I forgave him a week later but only because he had a cute lab mate.
No one has addressed the far more important question: why would anyone ever want to transition into playing golf????
