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I started my winter work with my pro last Thursday.
I've highlighted a few areas of my game that I want to work on over the winter months. 1st up is going to be short pitches inside 100 yards.
I decided to take a "Before and after picture" of the results.
This picture was taken a week before my lesson using my old action:
No what you'd call terrible, but not pretty inconsistent.
After reviewing my action on his iPad he made a few changes.
1. Ball more forward (Just off left heel)
2. Less forward shaft lean (He wants me to use the bounce a little more)
3. A little more knee flex
4. Lower hands
5. Better takeaway position keeping the club head fractionally outside my hands going back.
6. Correct alignment
Initially, the changes felt so, so strange. In all probablility because my previous set-up was very upright. I've worked on the postural changes on the practice ground, range and even in my front room
in an attempt to get the new set up posture feeling more natural.
Hit the range at lunch today, warmed up with a few 7 irons, which weren't great, then moved onto the short pitches.
Here's todays spread:
Night and day as far as I'm concerned.
Much closer to the flag, with a much tighter dispersion. Out of 25 balls hit, 18 were inside 20ft. The action still feels a little strange keeping the club head just outside my hands, but the results and how quickly they have come have really surprised me.
Contact has improved, even though the ball has been moved quite a bit forward. Flight is more consistent and controlled and the ball seems to be spinning more on landing. Varying the hight of the pitch also seems easier this way.
My Pro, Chris, has advised that, with this technique I can use anything down to a PW to alter distance, flight and spin characteristics of a short pitch. So plenty of time on the practice ground now over the winter getting consistent yardages.
So far, so good :thup:
No particular reason of this thread. I just felt like sharing
I've highlighted a few areas of my game that I want to work on over the winter months. 1st up is going to be short pitches inside 100 yards.
I decided to take a "Before and after picture" of the results.
This picture was taken a week before my lesson using my old action:
No what you'd call terrible, but not pretty inconsistent.
After reviewing my action on his iPad he made a few changes.
1. Ball more forward (Just off left heel)
2. Less forward shaft lean (He wants me to use the bounce a little more)
3. A little more knee flex
4. Lower hands
5. Better takeaway position keeping the club head fractionally outside my hands going back.
6. Correct alignment
Initially, the changes felt so, so strange. In all probablility because my previous set-up was very upright. I've worked on the postural changes on the practice ground, range and even in my front room
in an attempt to get the new set up posture feeling more natural.Hit the range at lunch today, warmed up with a few 7 irons, which weren't great, then moved onto the short pitches.
Here's todays spread:
Night and day as far as I'm concerned.
Much closer to the flag, with a much tighter dispersion. Out of 25 balls hit, 18 were inside 20ft. The action still feels a little strange keeping the club head just outside my hands, but the results and how quickly they have come have really surprised me.
Contact has improved, even though the ball has been moved quite a bit forward. Flight is more consistent and controlled and the ball seems to be spinning more on landing. Varying the hight of the pitch also seems easier this way.
My Pro, Chris, has advised that, with this technique I can use anything down to a PW to alter distance, flight and spin characteristics of a short pitch. So plenty of time on the practice ground now over the winter getting consistent yardages.
So far, so good :thup:
No particular reason of this thread. I just felt like sharing
