Do you suffer over-adjustments??

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No this is not an advert for PPI misselling or Injury lawyers.... But do you suffer from over-adjustment syndrome (OAS)

During a round, I will realise that if I make a tiny adjustment in stance, grip, alignment I get a better result. So I will try it again later in the round but with little more of it, I will get better results.. soon I end up a very exaggerated adjustment and it will start getting me in a bad place. For example: few weeks ago, I had a little bit of extra weight on the right and was tilting my spine a bit - result I was bombing my drivers. After about 3 weeks, my tilt was so bad that I was topping the drive as I was starting to miss the ball!!! So the driver went into the sin bin for 2 weeks.

This weekend, finally pulled my driver out and went back to my original stance - result I can hit the driver again!! HAPPY DAYS.

I can see i have a pattern here, as most of my issues have been from over adjusting. The moment I reset and go back to my natural/neutral game the bats start playing again.

Does anyone else suffer from this??

ps: I named it OAS, but I could also call it the Alistair Cook Syndrome or something...
 
Yes, it's the worst thing about my game! I can go for a lesson barely able to hit a straight shot, 10 minutes in he's reset me and I'm hitting it lovely, so off we go to work on other things.

I need to win the lottery so I can appoint him as my coach/caddy.
 
I get it a lot in practice. You stand at the range/practice ground tweaking things and find something that works. As the OP says, you push it and push it and WHAMMO, it goes to pot and you can't hit anything or even find the original swing. I tend to be a lot less of a tweaker on the course these days and have been playing some nice stuff bar two car crash holes I can't get out the system so don't feel the need to keep trying things when I'm playing
 
I just swing!

If something goes wrong, I can normally diagnose it and either protect against - not a good thing - correct it, or ignore it as a 1-off!

Too much thinking! Learnt from being the 'victim' of over-correcting of course!!!

I do wish I could get better leg action though!
 
Fellow sufferer here. Played some great golf earlier in the season after discovering a new downswing key. Slowly, this stopped working & I got further & further away from what was a pretty decent swing. The other day I thought " how was I swinging it when I was playing really well". Went back to the same "feel" on the downswing and, hey presto, yesterday played first 15 holes in 2 over. I' m now going to write down exactly what I do & how it feels and refer to it when my swing goes off. 90% of the game is, I'm sure, knowing your own swing, remembering what works & knowing, when a fault creeps in, what to do about it.
 
Yup, I'm one too. Too many times I've found something then made it far too exaggerated. Last night I started to chip with a more neutral balance, rather than weight 70% on the left foot and it started going a lot better than it had done. All because, over the last year or so, I'd let the weight on the left foot get more and more and more!
 
Definitely. I think it is because when you make a change it feels a certain way, usually odd, and as it becomes ingrained it starts to feel more normal so you push it a little more to retain the same feeling of the change, eventually you push too far and over shoot where you ought to be.
 
I've been hitting a lovely draw lately. Played three days at the weekend and Saturday turned into an overdraw. Not a hook but too much draw so I was missing everything left. I realigned myself on Sunday and shot 39 points with my 3 wood longer than any of my playing partners drives with a lovely draw on it.
 
Maninblack4612 said:
Fellow sufferer here. Played some great golf earlier in the season after discovering a new downswing key. Slowly, this stopped working & I got further & further away from what was a pretty decent swing. The other day I thought " how was I swinging it when I was playing really well". Went back to the same "feel" on the downswing and, hey presto, yesterday played first 15 holes in 2 over. I' m now going to write down exactly what I do & how it feels and refer to it when my swing goes off. 90% of the game is, I'm sure, knowing your own swing, remembering what works & knowing, when a fault creeps in, what to do about it.
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How right you are!!
It all comes down to the basics that go off for a variety of reasons, but it's sooooo annoying just when you think you have got it licked.

I think I love and hate golf in equal measure.
 
vkurup said:
No this is not an advert for PPI misselling or Injury lawyers.... But do you suffer from over-adjustment syndrome (OAS)

During a round, I will realise that if I make a tiny adjustment in stance, grip, alignment I get a better result. So I will try it again later in the round but with little more of it, I will get better results.. soon I end up a very exaggerated adjustment and it will start getting me in a bad place. For example: few weeks ago, I had a little bit of extra weight on the right and was tilting my spine a bit - result I was bombing my drivers. After about 3 weeks, my tilt was so bad that I was topping the drive as I was starting to miss the ball!!! So the driver went into the sin bin for 2 weeks.

This weekend, finally pulled my driver out and went back to my original stance - result I can hit the driver again!! HAPPY DAYS.

I can see i have a pattern here, as most of my issues have been from over adjusting. The moment I reset and go back to my natural/neutral game the bats start playing again.

Does anyone else suffer from this??

ps: I named it OAS, but I could also call it the Alistair Cook Syndrome or something...
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That makes a lot if sense.
 
Yup hands up here too. When I've discovered something new that works I end up way over exaggerating to the detriment of the improvement. Eventually it falls back into place, but this is a problem with being a bit of a perfectionist.
 
Exactly! I find a fix that improves my swing for a day or two, but then I start exaggerating it and introduce other faults. I end up chasing the same series of faults and fixes over and over again in a loop. It seems to be in the nature of golf! You rarely get all aspects of your game (driving, irons chipping and putting) working well at the same time! :mmm:
 
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Exactly! I find a fix that improves my swing for a day or two, but then I start exaggerating it and introduce other faults. I end up chasing the same series of faults and fixes over and over again in a loop. It seems to be in the nature of golf! You rarely get all aspects of your game (driving, irons chipping and putting) working well at the same time! :mmm:
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If people did then they would be scratch golfers and pro golfers - thats why we are amatuers - because the amount of time all aspects work together is very rare
 
Went to hit some balls later. Had a lovely swing at the weekend and glorious tempo. No sign of either today and a frustrating hour or so. Putting it down to a bad day. Nothing to do with the odd tweak or two :whistle:
 
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