I am 74 and was always taught to hit up on the driver. In recent years, some pros have started hitting down on it (maybe Brooks Koepka for one). So hitting down is a recent development.
I can remember Parker playing on tour not so long ago. Personally, I love the behind the curtain stories of how guys got to where they are and what it took to get there. In our current climate of professional golf. The success stories are often celebrated as they should. You always here the phrase work hard enough and success will follow. That's not always true and there are thousands of those stories of players that were close and went the wrong way or for some other unforeseen reason didn't make it. I feel those stories need to be told because at the end of the day the current crop of pro careers are built on the backs of those who failed.
@industrialpalletworx3548 Very true but unless you have seen it personally most won't understand that for every player that makes it there are a heap of great players that you have never heard of that don't..
@johnhue8933 I not only saw it, I lived it. I'm still living it. For a long time I carried a ton of resentment towards those on tour. I could do everything they could but I was working 70-80 hours a week for slightly over minimum wage. I tried my ass off with little to no success. I couldn't watch it on TV, read about it, none of it. I finally made peace with my own failures during the pandemic. Now I live with a touch of regret, because I'm almost eligible for the Champions Tour and wasted my prime years being angry over someone else's success.
'Dug it out of the dirt' sounds like getting steep. That is an unfortunate and misleading expression to use when all you meant to say is that he was a tireless innovator in the development of the shallower pitch technique.
I am 74 and was always taught to hit up on the driver. In recent years, some pros have started hitting down on it (maybe Brooks Koepka for one). So hitting down is a recent development.
I can remember Parker playing on tour not so long ago. Personally, I love the behind the curtain stories of how guys got to where they are and what it took to get there. In our current climate of professional golf. The success stories are often celebrated as they should. You always here the phrase work hard enough and success will follow. That's not always true and there are thousands of those stories of players that were close and went the wrong way or for some other unforeseen reason didn't make it. I feel those stories need to be told because at the end of the day the current crop of pro careers are built on the backs of those who failed.
@industrialpalletworx3548 Very true but unless you have seen it personally most won't understand that for every player that makes it there are a heap of great players that you have never heard of that don't..
@johnhue8933 I not only saw it, I lived it. I'm still living it. For a long time I carried a ton of resentment towards those on tour. I could do everything they could but I was working 70-80 hours a week for slightly over minimum wage. I tried my ass off with little to no success. I couldn't watch it on TV, read about it, none of it. I finally made peace with my own failures during the pandemic. Now I live with a touch of regret, because I'm almost eligible for the Champions Tour and wasted my prime years being angry over someone else's success.
Zinger would tell you how special Seve was with the Short game!!
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'Dug it out of the dirt' sounds like getting steep. That is an unfortunate and misleading expression to use when all you meant to say is that he was a tireless innovator in the development of the shallower pitch technique.
"Diggin it out of the dirt" simply means, trial and error all on your own.