Paul77
Challenge Tour Pro
I notice you have GAME Golf, do you analyse your game using the stats at all? I just had a quick look at your profile, and I don't think learning to draw your driver should be your number one concern. Looking at your last round, at Wishaw where you shot 123. You hit 64% of fairways, and looking at your drives you get it out there a decent distance (average of 227 is very good), and hit a decent amount of greens (28% should be shooting around 90 to 95 at worse. However, your putting average 2.72 per hole should be where you're focusing. That's 49 putts, that's a lot of shots. If you could work on your putting, and get it down to say 1.8 per hole, or 32 putts you'd have already gone from shooting 123 to 106, a massive drop.
Also, I'm curious, are the scores on all holes correct? You took a 14 on the first after a drive of 215 in the fairway? Did you actually have 9 shots with either a lob or sand wedge and 5 on the 2nd or did you miss-buzz? If you did take that number of shots with those clubs, your next few lessons should be working exclusively on chipping, pitching and putting. Learning to move the ball both ways with the driver is nice, but your driver isn't stopping you scoring, your short game is. If you fixed that part of your game your scores would absolutely tumble.
On those first two holes at Wishaw, I ended up in bunkers. My aunt was firing all sorts of tips at me without me asking, and I took many shots to come out of them. Second hole I was all over the place still reeling after the utter embarrassment of the first. I tried using my low bounce LW to get out because I didn't have a SW. It was just a dreadful time. Really soft and thick sand, and I had nothing in the bank to hit the shot.
After the round she took me into the practice bunker with her Callaway SW, and after a few duffs, I was coming out nicely. My round at Kirkintilloch lately, I managed to get up and out in one shot which I was happy about. Up until Wishaw, I had never been in a greenside bunker, because the course I used to play on hardly had any. One or two either side of the green but it was bump and run along the fairway type stuff.
She gave me a putter she found in her garage. I had to use that for Wishaw, and it was awful to use. Grip heavy and nothing in the head. An old Mistshubisha thing or something. I now have a Cleveland putter, I'm more comfy with but it's either really fast greens or really slow. Nothing consistent. The pitfalls of not playing in the same place and not being a member of a club I guess.