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I am returning to the game after a 10 year break from the game.
My enthusiasm has returned and I cant wait to get my handicap and get cracking again.
I formerly played to a top amatuer standard at a championship golf course.
My ambitions for this stage of my golfing adventure are very different, although my competitive nature wants to get as low a handicap as possible.
I do now have restricted time to play due to family and work.
Back then I would say I had pretty decent mechanics in my swing , set up & alignment.
Upon my return I was striking it well straight away but struggling for any consistency of flight & direction.
Having played around a little bit trying things I started to stand open and it felt better and strangely I was hitting a soft draw.
I then started to stand very open and it started to feel very very good with me now virtually taking the right hand side of the course out of play (Less to worry about)
All I feel I have to do now is commit to hitting right through the shot and I hit a consistent draw and flight.
Keeping it very simple, Many times I see players tying themselves up in knotts with too many thoughts and mechanics in their heads
Feeling that this goes against what my head tells me should be happening I booked a lesson with my old teacher.
I was hitting the ball so well and consistently during the lesson that he didnt even try to get me to return to the more conventional set up that I had before.
He tweaked my grip and gave me a takeaway drill but that was about it.
He said that although my set up was very different the plane and path of my swing was great and I was repeating it so stick with it.
As he said that kind of method worked for Fred Couples so why not.
Ive been doing this for 4 weeks now and I have played very well posting some really nice gross scores at my new course as my confidence grows.
So I guess what im trying to say is YES try to get your mechanics as conventional as you can, its the right thing to do for sure but if it aint working dont be afraid to try other things as you may just stumble upon something that works for you.
My enthusiasm has returned and I cant wait to get my handicap and get cracking again.
I formerly played to a top amatuer standard at a championship golf course.
My ambitions for this stage of my golfing adventure are very different, although my competitive nature wants to get as low a handicap as possible.
I do now have restricted time to play due to family and work.
Back then I would say I had pretty decent mechanics in my swing , set up & alignment.
Upon my return I was striking it well straight away but struggling for any consistency of flight & direction.
Having played around a little bit trying things I started to stand open and it felt better and strangely I was hitting a soft draw.
I then started to stand very open and it started to feel very very good with me now virtually taking the right hand side of the course out of play (Less to worry about)
All I feel I have to do now is commit to hitting right through the shot and I hit a consistent draw and flight.
Keeping it very simple, Many times I see players tying themselves up in knotts with too many thoughts and mechanics in their heads
Feeling that this goes against what my head tells me should be happening I booked a lesson with my old teacher.
I was hitting the ball so well and consistently during the lesson that he didnt even try to get me to return to the more conventional set up that I had before.
He tweaked my grip and gave me a takeaway drill but that was about it.
He said that although my set up was very different the plane and path of my swing was great and I was repeating it so stick with it.
As he said that kind of method worked for Fred Couples so why not.
Ive been doing this for 4 weeks now and I have played very well posting some really nice gross scores at my new course as my confidence grows.
So I guess what im trying to say is YES try to get your mechanics as conventional as you can, its the right thing to do for sure but if it aint working dont be afraid to try other things as you may just stumble upon something that works for you.
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