backwoodsman
Tour Winner
So far this year I've been bumbling along, mostly indifferent with a few goodish rounds to get a bit of a cut. Nothing spectacular but at least I knew how far I hit my clubs if not actually in which direction it would be. Then a couple of weeks ago we went on our annual trip to play on the links north of the border. All ok for a couple of rounds, then developed a vicious duck hook with anything like a long club.
Correctly or not I determined that I was bending (allowing to collapse??) my left arm too much during the backswing, so made a conscious effort to keep it straight - which seemed to work. I then noticed that I seemed to be hitting the ball a lot further than previously. I put it down to short grass and rock hard turf giving a lot of roll out. But then the carry was longer too.
Got home and have seen that the increased length is still there. And our course hardly has the characteristics of a scottish links. Shots that used to be a comfortable 8 iron I'm now over hitting with a pitching wedge. What was a 5 iron into the wind I'm now hitting with a 7. A nice 35 points in Saturdays comp could have been so much better if I hadn't hit over the back on about 5 or 6 holes. Same happened yesterday.
Over the space of about 6 rounds in a week I'm hitting all my short irons something like 25 to 30 yards longer than I used to. And I'm referring to carry not full length. Not quite as noticeable with the longer clubs but still better
What's going on? Can it all be down to keeping that arm just a little bit straighter? Or have I stumbled on something else which I'm just as likely to lose without knowing what it was. Not complaining at all - just mystified. It's a huge change in such a short time and I don't know why?
Correctly or not I determined that I was bending (allowing to collapse??) my left arm too much during the backswing, so made a conscious effort to keep it straight - which seemed to work. I then noticed that I seemed to be hitting the ball a lot further than previously. I put it down to short grass and rock hard turf giving a lot of roll out. But then the carry was longer too.
Got home and have seen that the increased length is still there. And our course hardly has the characteristics of a scottish links. Shots that used to be a comfortable 8 iron I'm now over hitting with a pitching wedge. What was a 5 iron into the wind I'm now hitting with a 7. A nice 35 points in Saturdays comp could have been so much better if I hadn't hit over the back on about 5 or 6 holes. Same happened yesterday.
Over the space of about 6 rounds in a week I'm hitting all my short irons something like 25 to 30 yards longer than I used to. And I'm referring to carry not full length. Not quite as noticeable with the longer clubs but still better
What's going on? Can it all be down to keeping that arm just a little bit straighter? Or have I stumbled on something else which I'm just as likely to lose without knowing what it was. Not complaining at all - just mystified. It's a huge change in such a short time and I don't know why?
