HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
As many of you will have read, I'm one of the forums advocates for lessons and am currently having one a month and have changed a lot of things with my swing over the last few months. One of the things I have been trying to do is hit my driver with a controlled fade and I've been struggling to get to grips with it.
But then yesterday I had a good couple of hours on the range in the morning working on some changes and a society do yesterday afternoon and something clicked. The 1st opportunity to hit driver came on the 3rd hole, a 500yd par 5, dogleg right. There's a ditch down the left of the fairway whihc will probably catch a straight shot with the ground so hard.
So I tee it up, aiming at the trees on the corner of the dogleg, set up for my fade, take a couple of practice swings and bam a perfect piercing fade flies directly over the tree I'm aiming at and cuts back into the fairway coming to rest 190 yards from the pin (I left the eagle putt from 15 feet on the edge of the hole for those intersted)
And that was it, me and my Ping G10 in complete harmony for the whole round. You know when you get that feeling that you're in complete control of your ball? The moment the ball leaves the clubface you know it's perfect and bend down to pick the tee up before it's even landed knowing that it is going exactly where you want it? The feeling is still with me, I'm buzzing just thinking about it...
...but, it's our monthly medal on Saturday and I just know that the chances of that happening again are somewhere between slim and none at all, which got me thinking. If you could pick one shot that you were guaranteed to hit just where you want it, just one shot, the rest of your game would stay the same with all it's inconsistencies but you could have this one shot, what would you choose and why?
Give me that Drive and I'd be in golfing heaven.
But then yesterday I had a good couple of hours on the range in the morning working on some changes and a society do yesterday afternoon and something clicked. The 1st opportunity to hit driver came on the 3rd hole, a 500yd par 5, dogleg right. There's a ditch down the left of the fairway whihc will probably catch a straight shot with the ground so hard.
So I tee it up, aiming at the trees on the corner of the dogleg, set up for my fade, take a couple of practice swings and bam a perfect piercing fade flies directly over the tree I'm aiming at and cuts back into the fairway coming to rest 190 yards from the pin (I left the eagle putt from 15 feet on the edge of the hole for those intersted)
And that was it, me and my Ping G10 in complete harmony for the whole round. You know when you get that feeling that you're in complete control of your ball? The moment the ball leaves the clubface you know it's perfect and bend down to pick the tee up before it's even landed knowing that it is going exactly where you want it? The feeling is still with me, I'm buzzing just thinking about it...
...but, it's our monthly medal on Saturday and I just know that the chances of that happening again are somewhere between slim and none at all, which got me thinking. If you could pick one shot that you were guaranteed to hit just where you want it, just one shot, the rest of your game would stay the same with all it's inconsistencies but you could have this one shot, what would you choose and why?
Give me that Drive and I'd be in golfing heaven.
