bobmac
Major Champion
What were your swing thoughts ?
Massively frustrated
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What were your swing thoughts ?
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
getting the club face straight at the point of impact, and turning my hips so that i ended up facing the target.
bobmac
Major Champion
How do you get the clubface straight and where is your weight distributed at the end of the swing?
50-50
75-25 front foot
99-1 front foot
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
couple of practice swings focussing on getting the club face in the right position, stop, and try to repeat.
I'd say 75-25, maybe more. back foot has very little weight on it.
bobmac
Major Champion
I'd love to see a face on video of you on the course
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
My golf this year so far has been pretty similar to as it has been for the last few years. Good spells with intervening periods of dreadful endless Lucy Lockets. I used to get really, really upset and down about it. But you know, in the great scheme of things - and especially when things are bad and I am down about my game - I reflect on how fortunate I am to be able to play our great game - out and about in many glorious locations and settings - including my own track. So when out on the course and feeling down - I look around and give thanks. That makes me feel better - and my rubbish shots matter less - and feeling less down things often improve.
Norrin Radd
Tour Winner
Frustration has been my game this year as my short game has deserted me on far to many occasions ,not knowing if I have a short game before I tee off is very off putting and really doesn't help my state of mind wondering if I'm going to mess up again .,...But the last game I played ,before going outI had a chat with the club pro and Im hoping I have sorted my problems and my short game will be up front and helping me score well again.
Frustrating game but very rewarding when it all goes to plan.
Frustrating game but very rewarding when it all goes to plan.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Yep. Had some decent ball striking rounds blighted by an inability to get the ball up and down when I miss a green. I do have some good days when ball striking, direction and short game all come together and not given up hope of finishing the season on an upward curve
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Biggest problem for me is I can hit a fairway from 250 yd’s but miss the green from 100 .
It’s very frustrating when driver is your most accurate club.
It’s very frustrating when driver is your most accurate club.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Yep. Refining the art of missing greens with all my wedges to a fine art
larmen
Head Pro
Having progressed this a little I can hit some shots from a 'top stop' position in a drill now, but in swing it still doesn't work out entirely.
So at the end I just thought I try a wood, and because the tees plugged into the mat I took the 3 wood, the hight seems right.
My 3 wood head is now somewhere resting on the range in the dark while the shaft is in the car boot with the head cover. I don't think I hit anything drastically, but repeated grounding (actually not much today) must have weakened the shaft enough to rip out the head, and I have no idea where it went. I actually think it went more or less straight up.
Lesson coming up on Saturday.
larmen
Head Pro
Call from the pro shop, £40 for reshafting. Guess that means they found the head.
Lump
Tour Winner
Just re-shafted my 2 snapped clubs.
Best part of £100 for a 2 minute tantrum. 🙃.
larmen
Head Pro
That was a revelation! For my issue it all came down to my top stop actually being a top and backstop, and we all know that nobody likes a backstop, do we ;-)
Anyway, I compensated the too far behind hands with a ridiculous wrist movement. After a handful of balls I am now playing nice shots again.
We didn’t try woods in the lesson, but I did after and it still needs some work again. But I hit my PW using the fixed swing up to 14 yards further than I did before it went wrong.
A lesson was definitively worth it for me. My playing partners described the swing as ‘moving the head up’ which the pro says I am not doing.
Wolf
Well-known member
I feel for the OP. I've had some big frustration with the game since my return last November time, good golf, bad golf decided on a swing rebuild and despite early promise and a big win l, the same mediocre play was there always. Have had nearly 8 weeks away from even touching a club and haven't missed it, decided to dust them off today and get out in the week weather permitting see how it and I feel about it.
dronfield
Newbie
Your last comment confirms the value of lessons - pros have a trained eye and can quickly spot swing faults and how to correct them.
Playing partners mean well but tend to trot out comments like "your head came up" or "your swing was fast", which were probably not the actual cause of the bad shot.
Rich
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
I just seem to have a mental block when I go on the course. Went up three times last week. Each time I had 30-45 minutes on the practice ground beforehand, and was hitting it reasonably well and consistently. Each time went out for 9 holes afterwards, started ok for the first 2 or 3 holes, then I just fall apart, it goes from bad to worse, and by the 6th or 7th, I am hitting duff shot after duff shot.
I know that thinking negative thoughts doesn't help, but they way my game is at the moment, it's like I'm waiting to self-destruct, and once I hit one bad shot, it's impossible to not think the next one is also going to be a stinker.
I know that thinking negative thoughts doesn't help, but they way my game is at the moment, it's like I'm waiting to self-destruct, and once I hit one bad shot, it's impossible to not think the next one is also going to be a stinker.
