pokerjoke
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Hi all.
Have just returned home following my 1hr lesson with Mr Mark Crossfied the pga
from Clifton Hill golf range in Exeter[plug].
I arrived an hour early for my lesson and when I arrived Mark was in the shop with James his
assistant who sometimes features in his course blogs.
I had a good chat with Mark and thanked him for his donation of his time,and explained how I won
it in an auction for HFH.
He said he gets lots of requests for lessons and he said he never refuses which I though was nice of him.
I met him recently at Bearwood Lakes at a Luke Donald day and he remembered me as I had a good chat
with him then also.
After a free coffee and a free buckets of balls I went to warm up.
The range was very well manicured with plenty of distant markers,it was under cover and the bays were
large.
The balls themselves were good however they don't go normal ball distances.
So onto the lesson Mark asked if it was alright to film as he wanted to put it on You-tube if
it was okay.
He asked me what I wanted to work on,and if I missed the fairway what was my miss.
I wanted to work on my driving so I hit 8 balls or so,then he got me hitting a 6 iron.
When we went to the figures he said he was very happy with my results off the driver and
pointed out that working on my irons would be much more beneficial.
He had noticed that I was pushing my hands way too far forward and I was delofting the club
and I was only hitting my 6 iron with 19 degrees of loft.
He then set about getting me to understand dynamic loft and then how to add more dynamic loft to my irons.
This was because he felt that I had reached a 6 handicap and he felt I wouldn't go lower without
adding loft to my iron play.
In simple terms this was getting my irons to fly higher and land softer which would help me hold more
greens when conditions go firmer.
I usually only play up to a 7 iron but Mark felt I really needed to get a 5 and 6 in the bag.
We worked on getting the club handle back towards centre and me getting the felling of adding
loft to the club through impact.
After about 10 shots I was up to 24 degrees however the miss was then to the right of target.
The next step was obviously to straighten the shot but still keeping the dynamic loft.
This was quite easily achieved by getting the toe of the club to feel as if was overtaking the
heel at impact.
Mark seems to have an amazing knowledge of how the swing works,the gadgets give you so
much feedback of Loft,spin,flight,path etc its impossible not to see where I was going wrong.
I truly feel it was money well spent at the auction and I will definitely be returning for another lesson.
Mark is sticking it on you-tube in a couple of days or so,so you can view it and post comment if you
wish.
Have just returned home following my 1hr lesson with Mr Mark Crossfied the pga
from Clifton Hill golf range in Exeter[plug].
I arrived an hour early for my lesson and when I arrived Mark was in the shop with James his
assistant who sometimes features in his course blogs.
I had a good chat with Mark and thanked him for his donation of his time,and explained how I won
it in an auction for HFH.
He said he gets lots of requests for lessons and he said he never refuses which I though was nice of him.
I met him recently at Bearwood Lakes at a Luke Donald day and he remembered me as I had a good chat
with him then also.
After a free coffee and a free buckets of balls I went to warm up.
The range was very well manicured with plenty of distant markers,it was under cover and the bays were
large.
The balls themselves were good however they don't go normal ball distances.
So onto the lesson Mark asked if it was alright to film as he wanted to put it on You-tube if
it was okay.
He asked me what I wanted to work on,and if I missed the fairway what was my miss.
I wanted to work on my driving so I hit 8 balls or so,then he got me hitting a 6 iron.
When we went to the figures he said he was very happy with my results off the driver and
pointed out that working on my irons would be much more beneficial.
He had noticed that I was pushing my hands way too far forward and I was delofting the club
and I was only hitting my 6 iron with 19 degrees of loft.
He then set about getting me to understand dynamic loft and then how to add more dynamic loft to my irons.
This was because he felt that I had reached a 6 handicap and he felt I wouldn't go lower without
adding loft to my iron play.
In simple terms this was getting my irons to fly higher and land softer which would help me hold more
greens when conditions go firmer.
I usually only play up to a 7 iron but Mark felt I really needed to get a 5 and 6 in the bag.
We worked on getting the club handle back towards centre and me getting the felling of adding
loft to the club through impact.
After about 10 shots I was up to 24 degrees however the miss was then to the right of target.
The next step was obviously to straighten the shot but still keeping the dynamic loft.
This was quite easily achieved by getting the toe of the club to feel as if was overtaking the
heel at impact.
Mark seems to have an amazing knowledge of how the swing works,the gadgets give you so
much feedback of Loft,spin,flight,path etc its impossible not to see where I was going wrong.
I truly feel it was money well spent at the auction and I will definitely be returning for another lesson.
Mark is sticking it on you-tube in a couple of days or so,so you can view it and post comment if you
wish.
