[BerntR]

I know the feeling Scottcuban,

I can shoot anywhere between 75 and 95 - and outside this range on both sides on an extreme day.

When I have my best stroke I feel like I can hit the ball with everything I've got and get a very good result. But I score better if I am a bit more humble about my abilities, take one more club and hit it 80%.

Hmmm... maybe I'm wrong about the distance part I guess it depends on where you come from. People who have a slice or OTT tencendy - that have to swing "easy" to square up the club - I think they can learn a thing or two by hitting the ball as hard as they can. I guess that my main point is that if your stroke doesn't work if you try to hit the ball hard you are compensating. And if you're playing with a stroke that breaks down if you try to hit it hard you're not playing to your potential.

If you know already how it feels to hit the ball a long way you should work more on the short game. Around the green, inside 100 yards and creative short game. It will make you less dependant on goot tee to green performance and it will feed off to your long game in a very positive way. I see people on the driving range who hit crap shot after crap shot because they have some problem they can't figure out. What happens then is that they repeat a dysfunctional pattern over and over - so they basically practice a stroke that then want to stop doing, which is not a good idea. I am not much better than those guys and I do fall into the same trap from time even though I knew better.

If they took an hour around the chipping green instead they might actually find their lost rhythm. That's what I do when I listen to my common sense. And it works pretty well too.