viscount17
Money List Winner
Hit a draw when I want to?
At the range last eve, testing to see if I remembered the set-up I had found the previous evening that had allowed me to hit the driver straight and decently long. Good news - I had; not every time but more often than not. The difficulty will be translating this from the relatively sterile conditions of the range to the course, with all its self-imposed pressures.
Went on to trying to learn to hit the bane of my life, the 5-wood, and that forgotten tool, the 3-iron. Didn't succeed too well with the 3-iron, about one in five or six were reasonable contact, fewer that I would be tempted to describe as good (I think I have a tendency to try to hit it as a wood?). I must persevere (I know I could discard it and just hit hybrids but I just feel that one ought to be able to use it, I can use the 4-iron reasonably well at times).
The 5-wood was a different case. Most shots were clean hits or sounded as if they were, they just had a tendency to choose their own direction, mostly a dead straight line but well left of where I think I'm aiming. By opening/closing my stance and the head I worked out a way of hitting it pretty much on a line of my choice, reasonably often.
As a reward I started trying to hit draws and fades. Now I know that this is running before I can stumble but 'twas ever thus for me (I entered a swimming gala at age 6 after one lesson and went in at the deep end; got across, sometimes on top, sometimes on the bottom but I got across).
I can now hit a fade (at least with a 5-wood), almost when I want to. I cannot hit a draw.
To hit the fade I was just aiming left, opening the face and going for it - seems to work. The opposite doesn't.
Later that evening! I trawled U-tube for videos - some of them are dreadful - most conflicting - and one 'pro' who shows you how to set up, hits the shot then describes where it has gone, he never lets you see where it landed.
At the range last eve, testing to see if I remembered the set-up I had found the previous evening that had allowed me to hit the driver straight and decently long. Good news - I had; not every time but more often than not. The difficulty will be translating this from the relatively sterile conditions of the range to the course, with all its self-imposed pressures.
Went on to trying to learn to hit the bane of my life, the 5-wood, and that forgotten tool, the 3-iron. Didn't succeed too well with the 3-iron, about one in five or six were reasonable contact, fewer that I would be tempted to describe as good (I think I have a tendency to try to hit it as a wood?). I must persevere (I know I could discard it and just hit hybrids but I just feel that one ought to be able to use it, I can use the 4-iron reasonably well at times).
The 5-wood was a different case. Most shots were clean hits or sounded as if they were, they just had a tendency to choose their own direction, mostly a dead straight line but well left of where I think I'm aiming. By opening/closing my stance and the head I worked out a way of hitting it pretty much on a line of my choice, reasonably often.
As a reward I started trying to hit draws and fades. Now I know that this is running before I can stumble but 'twas ever thus for me (I entered a swimming gala at age 6 after one lesson and went in at the deep end; got across, sometimes on top, sometimes on the bottom but I got across).
I can now hit a fade (at least with a 5-wood), almost when I want to. I cannot hit a draw.
To hit the fade I was just aiming left, opening the face and going for it - seems to work. The opposite doesn't.
Later that evening! I trawled U-tube for videos - some of them are dreadful - most conflicting - and one 'pro' who shows you how to set up, hits the shot then describes where it has gone, he never lets you see where it landed.
