Odd Things You See Golfers Do On The Course

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00:00Hello everyone, Neil Tappin here from Golf Monthly and welcome to The London Club and

00:03this video in which we are looking at eight weird things that golfers do. These are the

00:08sorts of things that many of us do subconsciously or even consciously that doesn't make a lot

00:13of sense to non-golfers but that we all have in common. We're going to run through our

00:18list now of the eight weird things that golfers do. Have you ever done that where you've hit

00:35a shot and used your body to lean to help bring the ball back into play? It's something many

00:41of us golfers do and I'm not sure it works. I'm not sure that you can use the force to

00:45bring the ball back to play. The other one that falls into this category is when you

00:48hit a putt that's looking like it might go in but it also might miss. The little knee

00:53bend just to help the ball on its way. I'm not 100% sure they work. I think for the non-golfer

00:58that would look pretty weird.

01:08Now the next one on my list relates to putting with your glove hanging out of your back pocket.

01:12Now I think this emanates from the tour but exactly where I'm not sure. If you do know

01:17please do leave comments below. It's something that the vast majority of golfers do and I'm

01:22struggling to think of any other walk of life where you would have your glove hanging out of your

01:26back pocket. It might seem like a strange thing to do but it does make sense to us golfers.

01:30Get up. Get up. Get up. Sit. Sit.

01:42Why do golfers stand like that?

01:57Now golfers like most sports people have their own superstitions and I've seen a whole host over the

02:09years whether that's lucky ball markers or only using certain numbered golf balls whether that's

02:15odds or evens or ones or threes whatever it might be. I've seen quite a few. Now I don't have a

02:20particular number of golf ball that I always use but I do always mark my ball the same way. I always put a

02:25circle around the number. What's your superstition? Please do leave comments below. The more unusual the better.

02:36So the next one on the list is plumb bobbing. Now it might look strange

02:41but actually for a lot of those people who do it they really swear by it and it's particularly useful

02:46I think on these putts that are fairly straight that could break either from the left or from the

02:51right. You use the plumb bobbing technique just to give you that little bit more assurance that little

02:55bit more knowledge about what might happen to the putt. Now you see quite a lot of times players doing

03:00it on tour you might have even had a stint doing it yourself and as I say for those players that do use

03:05it a lot of them swear by it. The next one on the list refers to using inanimate objects to help you

03:15practice your golf swing. I'm talking about things like umbrellas or remote controls, broomsticks, hoses

03:22anything that you can put your hands on to practice your grip and then have a little waggle and check

03:27where you are in the golf swing. It's something that a lot of us do partly because we're sort of always

03:31obsessing about trying to get better at golf and I think non-golfers probably would look at us in

03:35that scenario and wonder what was going on but it's something that many of us do. What's the

03:40strangest thing you've used to help you practice your golf swing we'd be interested to hear.

03:49Now when it comes to the practice swing you might have thought that the best thing to do

03:53would be to try and create a direct replica of the swing that you'd be looking to make

03:58as you stood behind the ball but for a lot of golfers actually what they're trying to do with

04:01their practice swing is to groove a certain movement in the swing and that can lead to some

04:07quite unusual looking practice swings. I think for the non-golfer it looks quite weird but actually it

04:13does make a lot of sense if you're trying to get the club in a certain position in the swing to create

04:18the feeling that you're looking for. So there you have it that's our list of eight weird things that

04:23golfers do. I'm sure that we've missed something if we have please do post them below ideas about

04:29the strange things that you've seen on the golf course we'd be very interested to hear your thoughts

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