haplesshacker
Money List Winner
Booked up for 7 lessons today, and had the first hour long one today. Then went and played 18 holes. Unremarkable as it stands.
However.
Revalation time.
My problems are generally. Snap hooks, topping with a snap hook (that is ugly!), and pulling, particularly iron shots. All this I already knew.
After a very intense hour with the club pro. Wow.
So far he has established.
1 - I grip the club too much in the palm of my left hand, which was causing club twisting in my hands.
2 - I stand too far away from the ball and have my hands too low in my set up.
3 - Because of this I have a very bad take away, where by the club comes around my body too much when the shaft is horizontal.
4 - I have a very flat swing path. Which apparently doesn't help with the hooking.
5 - My follow through is very left of target, and my arms wrap around my body.
6 - Which leads me too, my hands finishing low, and having an unbalanced finish whereby I'm falling onto my toes and forwards / sideways.
The pro went through all of the above, but concentrated on the grip, the set up and the take away.
It all works!! My shots were more accurate today than at any other time in my short golfing 'career', and my ball striking was better.
Moral of the story is; having good kit is all very well, but if the doofus swinging the club is doing it wrong, you won't ever improve.
It also taught me that reading articules in mags and books, is good to a point, but you do need a pro to actually see what it is you are doing. You cannot 'see' your own swing. However I (even at this stage), can recognise when I'm doing something wrong.
I did have some lessons two years ago, which cured me of my slice, but created the hook.
A lesson isn't a one off, it's a progression, a learning curve that never ends.
So for everyone that thinks a new club will cure this that or the other.
Get a lesson.
However.
Revalation time.
My problems are generally. Snap hooks, topping with a snap hook (that is ugly!), and pulling, particularly iron shots. All this I already knew.
After a very intense hour with the club pro. Wow.
So far he has established.
1 - I grip the club too much in the palm of my left hand, which was causing club twisting in my hands.
2 - I stand too far away from the ball and have my hands too low in my set up.
3 - Because of this I have a very bad take away, where by the club comes around my body too much when the shaft is horizontal.
4 - I have a very flat swing path. Which apparently doesn't help with the hooking.
5 - My follow through is very left of target, and my arms wrap around my body.
6 - Which leads me too, my hands finishing low, and having an unbalanced finish whereby I'm falling onto my toes and forwards / sideways.
The pro went through all of the above, but concentrated on the grip, the set up and the take away.
It all works!! My shots were more accurate today than at any other time in my short golfing 'career', and my ball striking was better.
Moral of the story is; having good kit is all very well, but if the doofus swinging the club is doing it wrong, you won't ever improve.
It also taught me that reading articules in mags and books, is good to a point, but you do need a pro to actually see what it is you are doing. You cannot 'see' your own swing. However I (even at this stage), can recognise when I'm doing something wrong.
I did have some lessons two years ago, which cured me of my slice, but created the hook.
A lesson isn't a one off, it's a progression, a learning curve that never ends.
So for everyone that thinks a new club will cure this that or the other.
Get a lesson.
