ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
Just had one of those range sessions where the game felt easy.
Rolled up with a day spare, a break from the old job hunt and interview preparations.
I relaxed into a bucket of 100 balls and got down to working on some drills and trying some things out I picked up from youtube the day before. I spent half a day (the morning was taken up with job hunting) pouring over swing videos, mostly Mark Crossfield stuff.
So armed with knowledge I started experimenting, plenty of bad shots to analyse. My usual strong draw in my irons was evident, it seemed to come mostly from swing plane however.
I hit some very poor drives, worked on those but didn't get it working.
I hit some short irons, all very good. I started to look at why I could hit short irons good but not anything longer.
I moved to the hybrid and started to hit a few good ones, OOPS out of balls.
So a break for coffee, a reflection on my progress, which pretty much was nothing. I hardly hit anything good over a 7 iron.
I realised that in the longer clubs my hands appeared to be level with the clubhead, not slightly ahead and I was leaning over, not standing athletic like. I went through my normal routine with a hybrid, BAM good shot... OK what am I doing right here, the hands are ahead! Short irons, the hands are slightly ahead.
I seemed to have one swing for my hybrid and short irons and another for everything else, it MUST be down to setup. I ensured my alignment was good, I checked my grip, I checked my arm position (Bob will remember telling me my hands are too close to my body, I still do this now and fixed it a little this time too!). With my hands correct and standing up taller my swing was flatter and stopped me hooking the ball.
On to the driver BAM down the middle, 3 wood, BAM. 5 iron BAM. I see I was loosing power from my hand position and it was also leading me off plane. Now I had pushed my hands away from my body and got a straighter left arm.
It felt almost as if I was hitting the ball off the toe, I was standing up straighter, arms nicely away from the body, a good width on the swing and BOOM! Another nailed shot. I was really grooving in all the good advice from lessons I had a while ago, which fixed my common faults.
The only problem is I only go to the range every other week or so and can't afford to play at the moment! All this potential and nowhere to release it!
I still have enough on my range card for one more trip, hopefully it will be as fun as this one!
At least the putting green there is free, I am working on my putter on the carpet at home too. If I ever get a membership again I would hope to at least break 90 again!#
A session like that can really give you the bug for this game again!
Rolled up with a day spare, a break from the old job hunt and interview preparations.
I relaxed into a bucket of 100 balls and got down to working on some drills and trying some things out I picked up from youtube the day before. I spent half a day (the morning was taken up with job hunting) pouring over swing videos, mostly Mark Crossfield stuff.
So armed with knowledge I started experimenting, plenty of bad shots to analyse. My usual strong draw in my irons was evident, it seemed to come mostly from swing plane however.
I hit some very poor drives, worked on those but didn't get it working.
I hit some short irons, all very good. I started to look at why I could hit short irons good but not anything longer.
I moved to the hybrid and started to hit a few good ones, OOPS out of balls.
So a break for coffee, a reflection on my progress, which pretty much was nothing. I hardly hit anything good over a 7 iron.
I realised that in the longer clubs my hands appeared to be level with the clubhead, not slightly ahead and I was leaning over, not standing athletic like. I went through my normal routine with a hybrid, BAM good shot... OK what am I doing right here, the hands are ahead! Short irons, the hands are slightly ahead.
I seemed to have one swing for my hybrid and short irons and another for everything else, it MUST be down to setup. I ensured my alignment was good, I checked my grip, I checked my arm position (Bob will remember telling me my hands are too close to my body, I still do this now and fixed it a little this time too!). With my hands correct and standing up taller my swing was flatter and stopped me hooking the ball.
On to the driver BAM down the middle, 3 wood, BAM. 5 iron BAM. I see I was loosing power from my hand position and it was also leading me off plane. Now I had pushed my hands away from my body and got a straighter left arm.
It felt almost as if I was hitting the ball off the toe, I was standing up straighter, arms nicely away from the body, a good width on the swing and BOOM! Another nailed shot. I was really grooving in all the good advice from lessons I had a while ago, which fixed my common faults.
The only problem is I only go to the range every other week or so and can't afford to play at the moment! All this potential and nowhere to release it!
I still have enough on my range card for one more trip, hopefully it will be as fun as this one!
At least the putting green there is free, I am working on my putter on the carpet at home too. If I ever get a membership again I would hope to at least break 90 again!#
A session like that can really give you the bug for this game again!
