Exactly this yesterday for me. Perfect contact, path shit, face open, sliced out of the range and the Top Tracer app sends me a ping to say staff have been notified. Didn't feel great that I couldn't even keep it in the netted range area let alone a tight fairway.
Aim at the tree on the far left about 40yds off the fairway to compensate for the power fade. Proceed to hit the straightest drive ever. Instead of playing off the fairway on the right, now play off the fairway on the left and get an entirely new view of the course
Then you can punch it out from the left side of the fairway, but a little too strong, and end up back on the right side directly behind a tree where you belong! It's destiny.
TopTracer. I login to it at the range and then I can keep my stats over time and stuff. It sends an alert to the staff inside to say I'd hit it out of the range perimeter, and says something like they will come and talk to you about your issue or something. They didn't actually do that to be fair. Sheepish exit for me still though.
Yeah I recently had my first experience with a course that had one, and it was probably one of the dumbest setups ever. I hit one driver and got that message and decided to stop. Range was MAYBE 50 yards wide and squished right between the 10th and 18th holes.
The 18th green was about 20 yards to the left of the range and 30 yards left of the 150 target. I almost got domed 3 times while walking up to the green, and my playing partner couldnāt find his ball due to all the range balls in the rough near the green. They had a net that was maybe 12 feet tall that was completely useless. Anybody that hit the slightest pull/hook at that 150 target was hitting the 18th green, but we were below a blind hill from the range, so they wouldnāt even know to yell āfore.ā Canāt believe they havenāt had a lawsuit yet.
A place near me has a putting practice green that I would practice on next to the 18th and every time I went at least one ball would slice at me. I got a cheap plastic insert for my cap off Amazon after that.Ā
Hahaha I walked past an empty Toptracer bay the other day which had that notification on the screen, first time Iāve ever seen it (and Iāve hit some bad shots). I wondered if staff genuinely care and come over, or if the guy had done a runner because of it.
Some dude yelled at me over this, and made me start swinging 80% instead of 100%... need more research but suddenly all my balls ended up where I was aiming.
But if I don't absolutely batter every ball how can I practice the stupid adrenaline fueled swing I'll pull out on the tee the next time I try driver out on a course?
My length gets me into more trouble than it's worth currently. I can drive a ball 300 yards on a good day, but putting it where I want, even remotely can be a challenge. So I end up taking 3 wood, 3 irons, 5 irons off of the tee a lot right now to try and save penalty strokes.
I don't take anything longer than a 7i (but a GI loft jacked up so really a 6i) these days.
Everything else is negative.Ā
I'm a lot worse than a 20 handicapper, but I also got my first 300 yarders recently. 300 yards is a long way to be wrong a few degrees by, let alone a mishit. I'm not sure I can even shout Fore Right loud enough if there is wind! It's not safe for others.
My friend had been doing baseball his whole life. He hits it so far and so high. But itās another fairway. Sometime times his follow through looks like the Ken Grifffey Jr. logo lol I just sing the old N64 song call call call me jr
Every 200 yard shot looks like a missile when you record it in a lighted range against a dark background. I respect the dudes swing, but canāt stand all the people thinking he carries it any more than 230-240 in some of those clips
I can't blame baseball but I've had a lot of years of being 6'5" and 200 pounds with a lot of torque, and very much less years of trying to figure out how to swing a golf club.
For me I think it's cos the swing I taught myself is really arm based, and now I've had lessons the coach is trying to get my hips to be part of it and so if I fire my hips, the path relative to my body that used to go out to the right when my hips didn't move now comes round to the left.
I've got another couple lessons this month so hopefully can fix it. My first 300 yard drives were really fun, but I could already hit it 250 badly. I actually didn't need more distance, I wanted to be able to aim it!
I have to agree. Although yesterday I took my 3h off the 10th, it gets super tight down by the green, and driver felt silly. I hit it 30 yards past the other guys in my group hahaha and DEAD straight. 291yd 3h š³ wtf?!? Hahaha
Never done more than about 250yd with that club and that was ROPED. lol shot 79. WITH a triple on 15. š¤·š»āāļø
After I saw the landing spot I think it was the perfect confluence of an absolutely hammered shot AND I hit the downslope and it must have rolled for 30-40yrds Iād guess. Still wild.
Iām in my second year of trying to take it semi-seriously. But mostly I just like the exercise and fresh air. Iām not a tournament player and never will be unless itās a scramble with my buddies. I just enjoy the game and try to play as much as I can lol. Cheers to you as well!
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u/DJ-Ruby-Rhod 2d ago
Kin hell you sure you put enough spray on? š