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But I'm still a long, long way from the finished article.
Didn't play much at the weekend due to family commitments. Managed a quick 9 holes Saturday and only 4 on Sunday due to walking in because of, in my opinion, excessive slow play.
From my previous lesson, my pro has me working to eliminate my poor misses as, I have no clear miss losing shots to the left and right. My pro has me hitting, for what feels like the first time, from the inside. He says hitting a push or straight is what he's after with making my bad shot a pull. To say it feels weird (.... Again) is an understatement.
Anyway. Saturdays round was a big positive for me. All I hit was straight. Plenty of pushes and even the odd draw, but more importantly zero shanks and zero pulls :thup:
Decided to drop my pro an email to query a few things that were confusing me, which he answered and gave me clear instruction and explanation and even called me after to make sure I understood what he had sent in the email.
Fast forward to this evening. I roll up to the range after work, get set-up. Push, push, push, straight, you get the idea. I decided to make a slight change to my ball position, literally moving the ball forward so that my 7 iron is a half ball, maybe a full ball forward of centre. What happened next, frankly, I couldn't believe.
Push draw, push draw, draw, push draw, push, push draw.
I have never been a drawer of the ball. Ever! I've always been a fader.
Even in my S&T time, I could hit the push draw, but it was never consistant. Nothing to do with the swing pattern, just me not doing it right. Today, all I was hitting were pushes and lovely high push draws. Starting between 5-10 yards to the right of target and gently curving back to the left.
Even when I hit the push I was only missing my target area by the amount the ball was pushed, so between 5-10 yards.
For the first time, pretty much ever, I seem to have taken the left side miss out of my game. I, again hit zero pulls. The only misses I had left were where I drew the ball past the target, or started the ball straight and then the draw spin moved to left. The only time I lost anything right was when I hit a flat out block, or an Arthur J
The pull is dead, long live the push :clap:
I'm starting to feel, now, like every change my pro has suggested and made has been leading up to this. Moving my swing in a direction that is massively more consistent than what I had before, limiting my misses to one side of the course as opposed to both and taking the out-to-in path out of my game and giving me a much more controlled shot shape from the inside.
There are still plenty of things to work on but for now I'm content to be moving forward :whoo:
Watch me play like a chopper Wednesday night
Didn't play much at the weekend due to family commitments. Managed a quick 9 holes Saturday and only 4 on Sunday due to walking in because of, in my opinion, excessive slow play.
From my previous lesson, my pro has me working to eliminate my poor misses as, I have no clear miss losing shots to the left and right. My pro has me hitting, for what feels like the first time, from the inside. He says hitting a push or straight is what he's after with making my bad shot a pull. To say it feels weird (.... Again) is an understatement.
Anyway. Saturdays round was a big positive for me. All I hit was straight. Plenty of pushes and even the odd draw, but more importantly zero shanks and zero pulls :thup:
Decided to drop my pro an email to query a few things that were confusing me, which he answered and gave me clear instruction and explanation and even called me after to make sure I understood what he had sent in the email.
Fast forward to this evening. I roll up to the range after work, get set-up. Push, push, push, straight, you get the idea. I decided to make a slight change to my ball position, literally moving the ball forward so that my 7 iron is a half ball, maybe a full ball forward of centre. What happened next, frankly, I couldn't believe.
Push draw, push draw, draw, push draw, push, push draw.
I have never been a drawer of the ball. Ever! I've always been a fader.
Even in my S&T time, I could hit the push draw, but it was never consistant. Nothing to do with the swing pattern, just me not doing it right. Today, all I was hitting were pushes and lovely high push draws. Starting between 5-10 yards to the right of target and gently curving back to the left.
Even when I hit the push I was only missing my target area by the amount the ball was pushed, so between 5-10 yards.
For the first time, pretty much ever, I seem to have taken the left side miss out of my game. I, again hit zero pulls. The only misses I had left were where I drew the ball past the target, or started the ball straight and then the draw spin moved to left. The only time I lost anything right was when I hit a flat out block, or an Arthur J
The pull is dead, long live the push :clap:
I'm starting to feel, now, like every change my pro has suggested and made has been leading up to this. Moving my swing in a direction that is massively more consistent than what I had before, limiting my misses to one side of the course as opposed to both and taking the out-to-in path out of my game and giving me a much more controlled shot shape from the inside.
There are still plenty of things to work on but for now I'm content to be moving forward :whoo:
Watch me play like a chopper Wednesday night
. Short game lesson on Wednesday and looking forward to getting that part of my game tightened up as I normally neglect it in practice. 
