USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
I went to the range last night to hone my silky swing for the weekend. Well, that was the plan.
I have a few warm up issues, trying to get my back, neck and tennis elbow eased up before I can give it the full monty, so I started by hitting a few half pitches with my 58°. The first 6 went very nicely, nice high flight, fair bit of munch. Then I started to shank it. Awesome. Some of them barely made it out of the bay.
Switched to hitting a few irons, no problems there. Went back to the 58, everything out of the hozel.
Hit a few drives, fairways, rescues, everything is hunky dory. Irons too, every thing is fine, so spent the last 30 balls trying to get rid of the shanks.
Eventually get round it by pitching with my feet together, and swinging out to in, which works, but isn’t ideal. I will see if it is still there tomorrow when I get to play.
So I am putting my stuff away, when out of the corner of my eye I see a shiny object fizzing out over the range into the nearest bunker. Now I am on the top floor of a two tier range, and from where I am, I can see that some one has launched their wedge into the nearest bunker.
The pro was giving a lesson two bays down, so I say ’did you see that?’ to which he answers ‘it is usually an issue with the grip’, and carries on teaching, like it happens every day.
When I left a bit later it was still there, and I popped my head in downstairs to see who it could have been, but there was no one at that end of the range. I guess the bloke just went home without it. Idiot. Either that, or he had borrowed one from the shop to try out. Still an idiot.
I have a few warm up issues, trying to get my back, neck and tennis elbow eased up before I can give it the full monty, so I started by hitting a few half pitches with my 58°. The first 6 went very nicely, nice high flight, fair bit of munch. Then I started to shank it. Awesome. Some of them barely made it out of the bay.
Switched to hitting a few irons, no problems there. Went back to the 58, everything out of the hozel.
Hit a few drives, fairways, rescues, everything is hunky dory. Irons too, every thing is fine, so spent the last 30 balls trying to get rid of the shanks.
Eventually get round it by pitching with my feet together, and swinging out to in, which works, but isn’t ideal. I will see if it is still there tomorrow when I get to play.
So I am putting my stuff away, when out of the corner of my eye I see a shiny object fizzing out over the range into the nearest bunker. Now I am on the top floor of a two tier range, and from where I am, I can see that some one has launched their wedge into the nearest bunker.
The pro was giving a lesson two bays down, so I say ’did you see that?’ to which he answers ‘it is usually an issue with the grip’, and carries on teaching, like it happens every day.
When I left a bit later it was still there, and I popped my head in downstairs to see who it could have been, but there was no one at that end of the range. I guess the bloke just went home without it. Idiot. Either that, or he had borrowed one from the shop to try out. Still an idiot.
