Lesson Today

[Aycliffe_Hacker]

Hello all,

Had a lesson today with the pro at my local course. I hadn't had lessons for about 5 years so I was expecting the worst. However, things went really well.
A few tweaks of my swing and by the end I was driving past the 300 yard marker (straight down the middle) and I've never done that! Sorted out my alignment and found out why I'm always miles off target! Worryingly, he said that he'd seen something in my swing that needed further work but he wouldn't mention it because it might interfere with the improvements I'd made today.

He also said that I should be playing off 18 or so if my irons and driving were anything to go by. How can he tell? I took it as a confidence booster and nothing more.

Next lesson - the mystery swing issue.

Dave

 

[RGDave]

A few tweaks of my swing and by the end I was driving past the 300 yard marker (straight down the middle) and I've never done that!
He also said that I should be playing off 18 or so if my irons and driving were anything to go by.

Dave

Nice one! If you can hit it 300 yards, there's no excuse for not being better than me then.

 

[Robobum]

......A few tweaks of my swing and by the end I was driving past the 300 yard marker (straight down the middle) ......

Am I the only one who stops reading when someone writes this??

 

[Brookesy]

lol no your not, i also had a lesson 2nite and worked on my allignment and also my backswing.

Their is futher work needed on my downswing but im going to work on this next lesson, make sure you hit plenty of balls and dont go back to your old habits!

 

[Aycliffe_Hacker]

......A few tweaks of my swing and by the end I was driving past the 300 yard marker (straight down the middle) ......

Am I the only one who stops reading when someone writes this??

It wasn't meant as a 'Look at me, I'm the next Tiger Woods' comment. To be honest, I'm still in shock that I hit the ball that far at all and I certainly don't expect to hit it that well more than once in a blue moon on the course! I got a new driver a while back but couldn't use it unless I really slowed everything down. To see the ball go somewhere that I wanted it to was really pleasing. The pro actually commented that I do get a lot of distance when I strike it well. Then again, the yardage might not be accurate and it could have been going 150 yards (or 400! )

Apologies if it came across as a bit Billy Big Biscuits or whatever.

 

[Brookesy]

I wouldnt trust the yardages, im pretty sure how on one of our ranges i average 155 yards, the other 165 and on the course 170 with my 7 iron!

Although in my lesson i was hitting it 185 :, extremley random hitting lol

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think most pros will always see something that needs work but their skill comes in making sure the pupil understands what is being worked on in that particular lesson and can take away the drills and techniques and make the adjustments first.

I have to say 300 yards is going it some especially as the majority of top pros can only just get it out there that far. I didn't see the shot so I have to take your word for it but it does seem an awful long way. If you did then well done - great shot and remind me not to play you for a £1 a 9!!!

 

[Aycliffe_Hacker]

A few tweaks of my swing and by the end I was driving past the 300 yard marker (straight down the middle) and I've never done that!
He also said that I should be playing off 18 or so if my irons and driving were anything to go by.

Dave

Nice one! If you can hit it 300 yards, there's no excuse for not being better than me then.

Just everything else about the rest of my game to work on now. Lots of chipping and putting practise!! If I can regularly break 100, I'll be happy especially if I can beat friends now and then. Don't think I'll be troubling competent players for a while.

 

[Aycliffe_Hacker]

I have to say 300 yards is going it some especially as the majority of top pros can only just get it out there that far. I didn't see the shot so I have to take your word for it but it does seem an awful long way. If you did then well done - great shot and remind me not to play you for a £1 a 9!!!

[/QUOTE]

Like I mentioned in the other post, I was a bit shocked. I only realised how far my last 5 or 6 shots had gone when I started rounding up the balls at the end. Thought 230-50 would be tops and I would have been more than happy with that as I never thought I had a powerful swing, really. I wasn't always watching the balls land as the pro was constantly talking and pointing out various bits and bobs. I am under no illusion that I will be hitting the ball that long in future, I just want it straight! Even if the yardages are out, it does help to boost confidence in your ball striking. Maybe it's deliberate.

 

[Aycliffe_Hacker]

I wouldnt trust the yardages, im pretty sure how on one of our ranges i average 155 yards, the other 165 and on the course 170 with my 7 iron!

Although in my lesson i was hitting it 185 :, extremley random hitting lol

Yeah, maybe things are not as they seem. Oh well, as long as it's straight!

 

[bobmac]

300 yard drives and 185 yard 7 irons????

Dam, I'm getting old.

Time to retire and become a mad inventor

 

[thecraw]

I once played golf against a Blacksmith, apart from three crushed bones in my right hand on the first tee after a handshake, I never got near this guy!

Hammered 7&5. He put his 1 iron through the back of the 8th which is 303 yards long! I was hitting in 4-5 irons he was hitting in 9 iron. Never seen anyone crunch a ball like that in my life and I mean CRUNCH!

I was dormy 6 down when he put his ball through the back of the 13th into chest height ferns, I was on the front of the green in two thinking good at least I have got this hole back (fatal schoolboy error) when he not only found his ball; he flicked his wrists obliterating about 40 ferns in the process and chopped out to 3 feet. I obviously then went for my putt, raced it 7 feet by and missed the return.

Good night Vienna!

Thankfully he went onto win the County Championship that year!

 

[The23rdman]

About trusting yardage markers: This tool will help you measure your range accurately. Mine was well out at 250 yards.

earth tools

 

[Deleted member 1147]

The23rdman, good little tool that apart from the fact that I started measuring some of my drives and they were way shorter than I thought they would be .
I then noticed the distance in yards which was more like it !

 

[ColinR]

About trusting yardage markers: This tool will help you measure your range accurately. Mine was well out at 250 yards.

earth tools

Great post, just used it on my course.

 

[mono217]

300 yard drives and 185 yard 7 irons????

Dam, I'm getting old.

Time to retire and become a mad inventor

haha lol when does your prduct come on the market.

 

[viscount17]

About trusting yardage markers: This tool will help you measure your range accurately. Mine was well out at 250 yards.

earth tools

sorry, wouldn't bet on it.

checked my course, a line of pines, hedgerows etc that have long gone are still showing.ignore the 2009 date on the bottom of the map, in reality it's at least two years out of date and I suspect it's the same data as google earth.