Matty
Tour Rookie
I had a lesson and quick video analysis yesterday - seems I'm too upright and laying the club off as well. A few tips imparted and clearly some time to be spent sorting that lot out!
I had a lesson today and... (rolling thread)
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snell
Journeyman Pro
Am I the only one who struggles to translate lessons into course play?
Had a great practice session on wednesday using drills from a lesson I had a month or so ago, I was striping my irons.
Fast forward a day and I am slashing across every shot! Topping loads too
Had a great practice session on wednesday using drills from a lesson I had a month or so ago, I was striping my irons.
Fast forward a day and I am slashing across every shot! Topping loads too
Nope. Me too. Can hit it great in lesson and practice but lose all sense of what I'd done as soon as I peg it up on the first.
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Had a lesson on Weds night with Barry down at Clarkes in Rainford. Last of my first batch of 6. Working on my driving again. Been hitting big high push cuts and turns out I've been hitting down on the ball again. Given me a little drill to work on hitting up at it and hit some beauties in my lesson. Going to be something I really need to practice though, if I can get my driving sorted I'll start scoring a lot better!
snell
Journeyman Pro
Haha why do we torture ourselves with this game Homer 🤔🤔
Green Bay Hacker
Journeyman Pro
My problem is that I struggle to remember everything that I have been told/shown in the lesson when I get out on the course. I now write everything down and keep it in the bag so I can run through everything in the nets before going out in the comp.
One Planer
Global Moderator
Daft question but how often do you practice?
snell
Journeyman Pro
Honestly quite a lot. At least 3 times a week once the clocks have gone forward.
My problem is ill play well after a lesson. Then hit a few stray shots say a week or so later. Then start trawling youtube for answers...rather than going back to the basics of my lesson. Then I have at least 3 swing thoughts swimming round my head when I'm standing over the ball
Had my second Trackman lesson in a package of 6 last night.
The first lesson was the first time I had ever seen my horror of a swing on video! Was coming 7deg over the top so worked hard on flattening - unfortunately I'd gone the other way and was now hitting 6 deg from the inside!
Worked a lot on takeaway, standing taller and trying to hit down on the ball more by feeling like I was hitting a punch shot.
Feels very strange, but if I can ingrain it on the range and successfully transfer it to the course I'll be laughing. Have increased club head speed by 10mph in 2 lessons and was hitting my 6i with a 190+ carry with a great ball flight. Will be going to the range a lot this weekend!
The first lesson was the first time I had ever seen my horror of a swing on video! Was coming 7deg over the top so worked hard on flattening - unfortunately I'd gone the other way and was now hitting 6 deg from the inside!
Worked a lot on takeaway, standing taller and trying to hit down on the ball more by feeling like I was hitting a punch shot.
Feels very strange, but if I can ingrain it on the range and successfully transfer it to the course I'll be laughing. Have increased club head speed by 10mph in 2 lessons and was hitting my 6i with a 190+ carry with a great ball flight. Will be going to the range a lot this weekend!
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
I went for a lesson earlier and it was nice to see my practice is paying off and my swing is now in a much better place. Steve made a change to my release position and had me hitting it even better than I have been of late...which is nice :thup:
Had a lesson on Tuesday. Changes address and grip but really struggling and living deep in shanksville at the moment. There are some good ones that confirm the change will be better (trying to stop cupped wrists at address and top of the swing) but looking for any chink of light to tell me the weekend won't be a write off on the course
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Had a lesson with Barry Taylor tonight down at Clarkes. Been having them more regularly recently and feel like it's starting to pay real dividends. We've been making small tweaks each lesson, particularly with my driver, and tonight I feel like I've made a leap forward. Barry got me to try and put in a Tiger 2000-esque lower body movement and it made a huge difference. Went from hitting weakish pull-draws to hitting massive high bomb draws. Was carrying it up at 238 (with range balls on Flightscope) so was really getting it out there, pitching it well up the banking at Clarkes. Be hitting the range again tomorrow for some more practice and feeling like I'm prepared and hitting the ball great ahead of the medal this weekend!
Keep going and I hope it falls into place at the weekend
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
I had a couple of shanks about 3 weeks ago and after watching a Butch Harmen video of about 1m 40s I have not had one since and it was all down to how I was presenting the club to the ball.
As it was windy I was actually presenting the hosel to the ball as I was trying to close the clubface to keep it low in the wind.
Imo and we have spoke about this you will always struggle while you are having lessons because of the thoughts going on in your head.
3565
Journeyman Pro
The Open at Troon gave us a spectacular 4 days and none so the Postage Stamp. We watch week in week out 200+ par 3s and seeing the Pros tackle a hole not more then 125yds was a lesson in itself. It's not often that you get to watch them all playing the same length of shot with similar conditions and the way they approach in playing it, great viewing and mores the point a great lesson as well.
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Since it is winter and the time of year many of us are working on our swings I thought I would resurrect this thread. I'd very much like to hear what others are working on and how you guys are progressing.
I haven't had many lessons but this year I decided to give a series of lessons a crack. What the hay, I love golf so why not indulge myself in trying to swing properly for a change. Booked six lessons on the winter deal and off I went.
Lesson 1 -
Pro talked briefly with me on how I was hitting. Informed I was hitting mainly hooks then hit a few out into the range. Went inside and hit a few with him taking videos from down the line and face on.
Reviewed the video and talked about the things he would like to fix/ faults.
Main things were
-uber strong right hand grip. Needs weakening off.
-identified a slight reverse pivot
-identified my uber flat swing (boy did I not need telling)
-finally gave me a swingyde and showed me how I should be hinging up better.
At end of lesson I bought a swingyde off him and headed off to try an weaken my grip.
Spent the next month doing slow motion drills at home, attempted to weaken right hand and played golf but always just used my old swing doing this as I wanted to get the ball around in a decent number.
Lesson 2
A month later I booked lesson 2. Same thing, hit a few out into the range then on the cameras inside. Reviewed and
-pointed out my right hand still wasn't weakened off enough. It had slipped under again. He also wants left hand weakened off too. (left harder to do than right so far.)
-he has given me a picture of tigers grip to try and emulate.
-I was using a long left thumb. He didn't like this. He got me into a good grip and I hit some small shots into net.
-we then focused on the take away again in more detail. I had told him I was hinging up nicely in slow motion but always whipped it away inside when I went to hit full shots. I'm sure many can empathise this problem.
-he wants my left arm closer to my chest going back, hands in, club head out. Basically I am left arm off chest, hands away from body and club head in.
-he wanted me to really exaggerate a move of hands in and close to my legs and a drill of jamming the grip into my right hand pocket.
This move is completely alien to me as I've always just whipped the club in behind me early. Got pictures of stenson and been told to watch pro swings on YouTube to see this move in motion.
So and all, plenty to be getting on with over the next month. Grip and this backswing move mainly. Will add some photos if my tablet Stops dicking about.
Hope some find this interesting. I'd love to hear how others are getting on. The more detail the better.
I haven't had many lessons but this year I decided to give a series of lessons a crack. What the hay, I love golf so why not indulge myself in trying to swing properly for a change. Booked six lessons on the winter deal and off I went.
Lesson 1 -
Pro talked briefly with me on how I was hitting. Informed I was hitting mainly hooks then hit a few out into the range. Went inside and hit a few with him taking videos from down the line and face on.
Reviewed the video and talked about the things he would like to fix/ faults.
Main things were
-uber strong right hand grip. Needs weakening off.
-identified a slight reverse pivot
-identified my uber flat swing (boy did I not need telling)
-finally gave me a swingyde and showed me how I should be hinging up better.
At end of lesson I bought a swingyde off him and headed off to try an weaken my grip.
Spent the next month doing slow motion drills at home, attempted to weaken right hand and played golf but always just used my old swing doing this as I wanted to get the ball around in a decent number.
Lesson 2
A month later I booked lesson 2. Same thing, hit a few out into the range then on the cameras inside. Reviewed and
-pointed out my right hand still wasn't weakened off enough. It had slipped under again. He also wants left hand weakened off too. (left harder to do than right so far.)
-he has given me a picture of tigers grip to try and emulate.
-I was using a long left thumb. He didn't like this. He got me into a good grip and I hit some small shots into net.
-we then focused on the take away again in more detail. I had told him I was hinging up nicely in slow motion but always whipped it away inside when I went to hit full shots. I'm sure many can empathise this problem.
-he wants my left arm closer to my chest going back, hands in, club head out. Basically I am left arm off chest, hands away from body and club head in.
-he wanted me to really exaggerate a move of hands in and close to my legs and a drill of jamming the grip into my right hand pocket.
This move is completely alien to me as I've always just whipped the club in behind me early. Got pictures of stenson and been told to watch pro swings on YouTube to see this move in motion.
So and all, plenty to be getting on with over the next month. Grip and this backswing move mainly. Will add some photos if my tablet Stops dicking about.
Hope some find this interesting. I'd love to hear how others are getting on. The more detail the better.
Glad thing are moving along. I'm planning to use my 6 lessons starting in a week or so to get myself ready for the season. I want to just have a couple of MOT lessons to make sure my driver and irons are working and then get to work on the short game and pitching in particular. After that I want to play, play and play with only one range session a week and just trust what I have. Once the warm weather comes it's all about the short game and using the remaining lessons as and when I need them over the season
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
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I had a lesson earlier this week. The pro said that I should get more body turn through the impact zone, as I was doing too much with my arms and sometimes get stuck behind myself. At first the change felt to me like coming right over the top, but I started to hit some good shots on the range. He also did some work on my chipping and short game. I was playing in a 4BBB inter-club match the same afternoon. Got a good par on our difficult 1st hole to win it, but then had an 8 hole spell where I could only hit huge hooks. Fortunately my partner was playing well and carried me through it. On the back nine I decided not to think too much about the mechanics of the swing, and just hit the ball. This tactic worked and I started playing well again. We won the match 5&4. Incidentally our opponents were very complimentary about my short game in the bar afterwards, because I had made several good up and downs to win holes or rescue halves. This was a rare occurrence for me, as my short game is normally pretty rubbish, so that part of the lesson must have paid off!
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